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Parents and students trudge through the snow to Bethesda Elementary School on Tuesday. Only a couple of wet inches fell and county schools opened as usual — unlike the ten times when snow has prompted closings this season.
Schools can ask state to waive ﬁve snow days
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BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County Public
Schools is sticking with its snow
day waiver request — for now.
The Maryland State Board of
Education decided Tuesday that
school districts can ask that up
to five days missed due to bad
weather be waived, but Montgomery is still asking for only a four-day
waiver, according to Dana Toﬁg, a
spokesman for the county school
system.
School ofﬁcials are undecided
as to whether they will ask the state
to waive the additional day, Toﬁg
said.
County students have had 10
wintery days off this school year —
six days more than the four days
the district built into the calendar.
The state requires districts to
hold 180 instruction days.
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr
sent the four-day waiver request
to State Superintendent Lillian M.
Lowery nearly two weeks before the
state school board’s decision and a
few days before the school system’s
latest snow day on March 17.
If the district were granted its
current waiver request, it would
need to make up two instruction days. As of Tuesday, ofﬁcials
planned to add one day to the
calendar if the district is granted a
waiver, but they weren’t sure about
the second day.
The school system will either
ask that it be waived or decide to
make it up as well, Toﬁg said.
“Hopefully we will hear from
the state soon and will be able to set
a ﬁnal calendar for the rest of the
school year,” Toﬁg said in an email.
Lowery will make the call on
each school system’s waiver request, although no deadline has
been set for those decisions.
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Keeping tabs on the weather
Damascus man reports daily
data to National Weather Service
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BY CHRISTOPHER NEELY
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
This winter was one of the coldest and
snowiest in Montgomery County in more
than 30 years, and Robert J. Lefﬂer has the
stats to prove it.
Lefﬂer, 63, has been voluntarily running Montgomery County’s weather observation station in the backyard of his
Damascus home since 1981. He said this
Montgomery County
delegate: ‘Time is
of the essence’
BY
TIFFANY ARNOLD
STAFF WRITER
The death of a Silver Spring
man who collapsed in police
custody and later died has
sparked a debate over whether
police ofﬁcers should carry lifesaving devices to treat heart failure.
“This should be a wakeup call to the county, that they
should do something promptly,”
said Mike Mage, chairman of the
Montgomery County chapter
of the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Mage was talking about Kareem Ali, a 65-year-old mentally
disabled Silver Spring man who
died in 2010 after a scufﬂe with
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police. Police claimed he was
“unresponsive” in a stairwell
and were trying to move him
outside, sparking the conﬂict.
Police used a Taser stun device and pepper spray to subdue
him. He cleared an initial medical check with Montgomery
County Fire & Rescue personnel,
who left the scene after that.
But Ali then passed out in
the back of a police van and had
to be hospitalized. He was pronounced dead on Oct. 14 at Holy
Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
Ali’s ofﬁcial cause of death
was schizophrenia-induced
agitated delirium complicated
by police restraint, an enlarged
heart and obesity. The manner
of death was ruled undetermined, said Bruce Goldfarb, a
spokesman for the state medical
examiner’s ofﬁce.
On March 10, Montgomery
County, family reach
$450,000 settlement
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Known for stocking craft
beer, manager of Cuginis
Restaurant and Bar wins
county competition
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‘Bottom line, both sides came to the
conclusion that this was fair’
BY
BY
TIFFANY ARNOLD
Local beer connoisseur and
home brewer Danny Glazier is
giving beer a spicy twist with
a habanero ginger pale ale he
brewed with brother Justin Glazier and brother-in-law Dave
Stump.
The trio call themselves
Brotherhood Brewing and their
ale, Fire Drill, was named the
best home-brew in Montgomery
County in a competition held by
local distributors this winter. If
A wrongful death lawsuit spurred by the death of
Kareem Ali, a mentally disabled man who died after
a scufﬂe with Montgomery County police, has resulted in a $450,000 settlement between the family
and the county, according to a March 10 agreement
ﬁled in U.S. District Court.
“Bottom line, both sides came to the conclusion
that this was fair,” county attorney Marc Hansen
said.
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winter was one of the toughest he has experienced.
“This winter was consistently cold
and extremely snowy,” Lefﬂer said. “The
snow total was the third highest I’ve ever
recorded.”
Lefﬂer said of the past 10 winters, eight
have accumulated a below-average snowfall. The record-setting winter of 2009-10
and the 1995-96 winter are the only ones
since 1981 that trumped the most recent
total, he said.
Only December was warmer than the
they win at the regional level next
week, Cuginis Restaurant and Bar
of Poolesville, where Danny Glazier is manager, will get six kegs
of the ﬁery brew, which they’ll
tap at the bar to sell to customers.
Scott Smith, division sales
manager for the Craft Brew Alliance, organized the home-brew
competition among the Washington and Maryland distributors
with whom he works. Widmer
Brothers Brewery of Portland,
Ore., a member of the Craft Brew
Alliance, is sponsoring the competition.
When Carlee Delt, a representative with distributor Montgomery Eagle, asked Cuginis to
participate, owner Barbara Stull
turned to her in-house beer ex-
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Students learn
the art of display
SARAH SCULLY
tion March 18.
Best Technique went to Ben
Gherman of Barnesville for “Music”; Most Creative went to Rosetta
Johnson of Clemente for “Traveling
Love”; and Most Complex Composition went to Anna Morrison of
Barnesville for “The Desolate Lighthouse Island.” Best in Show went to
Adora Egwudobi of Barnesville for
“Habits.”
Honorable mentions went to
Barnesville’s Madelyn Amick for
“A Lonely Corner,” Joy Reeves for
“Half Alive” and Chris Terp for “The
Resting Lemons”; and Nadjah Cherubet of Clemente for “Dream.”
“Artists are usually people who
work by themselves and don’t really
get a lot of accolades,” Waldhorn
said in the release. “This has been
incredibly nice for the students.”
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The BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown is hostnig a joint student art
exhibit, “Converging,” through Thursday.
partment of Parks.
The festival is a traditional
celebration held on the 13th day of
the Persian year, and will include
Persian music, cultural activities
and food. It will take place from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. at Black Rock Hill Regional Park in Boyds.
Parking passes cost $30 and can
be purchased by calling the society
at 703-442-8100. For questions,
contact park police at 202-457-0072
before the event or 301-528-3469
on April 6.
Persian festival
planned in Boyds
The IrAmerican Civic Society
of Washington in McLean, Va., will
host its annual Sizdeh Bedar festival of spring April 6 in coordination
with the Montgomery County De-
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Bureau is accepting applications
for its scholarship program from
students who are members or have
a relative who is a member.
The bureau is providing two
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scholarships to students who are
majoring in an agricultural ﬁeld at
a vocational or two- or four-year
institution. Bureau members are
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Applicants should have a grade
point average of at least 2.5 or
higher, receive excellent references
from an employer or instructor, and
provide an essay of 500 words or
less. Application deadline is May 5.
For more information, visit
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Called “Converging,” the exhibit runs through Thursday.
The project is a collaboration
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A total of 21 students participated, each submitting three of
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The Barnesville eighth-graders
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deciding where the pieces would go
and then hanging them. Working
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Waldhorn and Donnelly.
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Clarksburg eyed for combined rec/aquatic center
Ovid Hazen Wells park
considered for regional
recreation complex
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BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
The Clarksburg area is slated
to become the location for the
county’s ﬁrst combined regional
recreation and aquatic center,
according to the county’s Department of Recreation.
“It would serve the heart of
Clarksburg but also reach out to
communities north and west of
Clarksburg,” said Jeff Bourne, division chief for the department’s
facilities.
One possible site for the
complex could be inside the
290-acre Ovid Hazen Wells park
off Skylark Road in Clarksburg,
or it could also be built somewhere else in the area, he said.
“This is very preliminary
work,” said Bourne, who is coordinating his department’s
search for a site with Montgomery Parks, the division of Maryland-National Capital Parks and
Planning Commission that oversees parks.
Montgomery Parks is currently accepting public input
on ideas as part of updating the
1995 Ovid Hazen Wells park
master plan.
Planners expect to answer
questions at the annual Kites
Over Clarksburg family day at
the park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
on Saturday.
Bourne said the idea of combining a rec center and swimming pools into one complex
will lower operating expenses
through the shared use of utilities, parking lots, ﬁtness rooms
and maintenance costs.
“We can bring together all of
that in one location,” he said.
There is $64,000 in the county’s proposed ﬁscal 2015 Capital
Improvement Plan for various
site selection studies, including
a recreational-aquatic center
and library in Clarksburg, he
said.
There is also $647,000 in
planning money in the budget
for unspeciﬁed projects around
the county, he said. So far there
are no preliminary estimates
for construction and operating
costs.
“We’ve not done this process before for this kind of facility,” Bourne said.
Lynn Fantle, planning chairwoman for the Clarksburg Civic
Association, said a regional center would beneﬁt fast-growing
Clarksburg, which is woefully
short of recreational facilities.
The town center, Clarksburg
Village and Arora Hills neighborhoods have homeowner association pools, but there are
dozens of other neighborhoods
that don’t, she said.
Clarksburg residents can use
the Germantown Indoor Swimming Facility in Boyds, but Fantle said the large facility is busy,
with parents sometimes having
to show up at 6:30 a.m. to book
swim time for their children, she
said.
A regional center should give
Clarksburg residents ﬁrst dibs
on recreational programs and
classes or alternatively, Clarksburg should get its own would
local rec center, which it currently doesn’t have, Fantle said.
Whatever happens, ofﬁcials
should comply with the wishes
of Ovid and Hallie Wells, who
deeded the park to Montgomery
Parks in 1981, Fantle said.
“The land and improvements hereby conveyed shall
be used as open space, for parkland, and/or for recreation in
such manner as to evidence
the conservation of soil, water,
wood and wildlife, and to that
end, shall be so maintained,”
according to the deed.
Trending to regional
Building a regional facility to
serve Clarksburg is a response to
the area’s growing population,
which is now at 20,000 and expected to grow to 40,000 when
current development plans are
realized.
The recreational center part
of the complex would be similar in function to the 21 other
rec centers in the county but
the building would be larger according to a new center model,
Bourne said.
The Department of Recreation’s idea is to move away
Oh, go ﬂy a kite!
Public invited to comment on
Wells Park plans at Saturday event
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BY
VIRGINIA TERHUNE
STAFF WRITER
Most of Clarksburg may be new and
growing, but it will soon hace a colorful, fun
and entertaining reminder of earlier days.
Coming to the Ovid Hazen Wells Recreational Park in the Arora Hills area is
a merry-go-round built a century ago. It
once operated at the National Mall near
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
The relocation of the carousel from
the Wheaton Regional Park is being considered along with the update of the Ovid
Hazen Wells 1995 master plan now being
done by Montgomery Parks, a division of
the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
The Wells family required the purchase of the carousel and location in the
park when they deeded their 1,900-acre
farm to Montgomery Parks in 1981.
Part of the update is deciding on a ﬁnal location in the park for the carousel,
which is 40 feet in diameter and features
36 animals and two chariots.
“Clarksburg has continued to grow,
and it can now support the carousel,
which is why we’re trying to get it out
there,” said Rachel Newhouse, planner
coordinator with Montgomery Parks.
The carousel and train ride in Wheaton Regional Park open for the season on
April 12 in time for school spring break.
Also part of the 1995 master plan update is ﬁnding a possible site to construct
a regional community recreation/aquatics center in the park or Clarksburg area.
Park ofﬁcials, who are seeking public
input on the carousel and master plan,
will attend the free, sixth annual Kites over
Clarksburg family fun day from 11 a.m. to
from building more local community centers and instead
build regional centers in four
“nodes” — Silver Spring, White
Flint, Shady Grove and Clarksburg — along the Interstate 270
and Md. 355 corridor.
In the next 20 years, most of
the county’s growth is expected
to take place along the corridors, where residents are also
presently underserved by recreational facilities, he said.
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2 p.m. on Saturday at the park.
“The Clarksburg Civic Association
started it as a community-uniting event,”
said co-organizer Kathie Hulley with the
association.
It is co-hosted by Montgomery Parks
and the community nonproﬁt Clarksburg
Foundation.
Organizers invite residents to bring a
picnic, roast marshmallows and ﬂy kites.
Kites are available for $1 to $10. There
will be free kite-making materials.
Visitors who bring canned food, used
eyeglasses or hearing aids to donate to local charities will receive rafﬂe tickets for
prizes from local sponsors.
Local clubs and associations will also
provide information about their activities.
“It’s a fabulous park for ﬂying kites
— there’s a small hill,” said Lynn Fantle,
planning chairwoman of the Clarksburg
Civic Association.
When the carousel might be moved to
Ovid Hazen Wells is not yet known, said
Christine Brett, with the Enterprise division of Montgomery Parks.
Designed to be disassembled, the carousel will likely be moved by truck during
the off season (November to April), when
the ride is closed.
Two possible locations at Ovid Hazen
Wells include a site near the former Wells
house near the center of the park and the
developed area at the southwest end of
the park along Skylark Road, Brett said.
Brett said the carousel will be replaced
in Wheaton with another carousel.
“It’s very popular,” she said about the
carousel and train rides.
Hulley said she’s glad the long-required move is now in motion.
“The ﬁnal location will be determined
by many things, [such as] sewer access
and roads,” Hulley said.
Wells and wills
Born in Tennessee, Ovid Hazen
“It’s the fastest-growing area
of the county, and it’s also currently the lowest-served population because of the existing large
population,” Bourne said.
The regional centers would
be about 8,000 square feet larger
than existing rec centers, with a
larger ﬁtness room, social hall
and community lounge.
They would also feature
multi-purpose rooms that could
be adapted to serve seniors,
Wells moved to Washington in 1918 and
worked in the White House police service.
His wife, Hallie Wells, worked for the War
Risk Insurance agency serving World War
I vets.
In the 1940s, the Wells bought 290
acres of farmland in Clarksburg west of
Md. 27 and north of what is now Skylark
Road. In 1981, Hallie Wells donated the
land to Montgomery Parks.
In exchange, Montgomery Parks
was required to buy, for not more than
$60,000, the Hershell-Spillman carousel
that James Wells operated at the Mall and
eventually move it to the park.
The southwest edge of the park has
already been developed with two soccer
ﬁelds, two softball ﬁelds, a baseball ﬁeld,
three picnic shelters and a playground.
There are also trails connecting the amenity areas and parking for 285 cars.
Curving through the longtime farm
in the south and east is the Little Seneca
Stream Valley, and in the center of the site
are more than 60 acres of farm ﬁelds, currently leased to a private grower.
Besides a proposed recreation/
aquatic center, future development ideas
include a recreation area in the center of
the park that would feature a ﬁshing pond,
miniature golf, a picnic area and possibly
the carousel near the former Wells house.
Also envisioned is a community garden on the Red Wiggler Farm in the eastern section that is currently farmed.
A trail system and a greenway link to
Damascus Regional Park, the Little Bennett Regional Park and Black Hills Regional Park is under consideration, too.
After meeting with Clarksburg residents and organizations, planners expect
to present a draft recommendation to the
county Planning Board in July, followed
by a public hearing in September.
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adult classes and after-school
programs.
“It’s like constructing multipurpose boxes,” Bourne said.
Also included would be
commercial kitchens to cook
for senior and after-school programs.
Locating in the I-270/Md.
355 corridor from Silver Spring
to Clarksburg will also encourage access to the facilities via
public transportation, which is
expected to expand in the corridor, Bourne said.
Montgomery Parks planners
expect to present recommendations to the county Planning
Board in July, followed by a public hearing in September.
For more information, visit
montgomeryparks.org and
search for “ovid master plan update.”
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NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING
The Mayor and Council and Planning Commission of the City of Gaithersburg will
conduct a joint public hearing on CTAM-4269-2014, filed by Lauren Pruss, Planning
Division Chief, on
MONDAY
April 7, 2014
AT 7:30 P.M.
or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard in the Council Chambers at 31 South
Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The application requests an amendment to Chapter 24 (City Zoning Ordinance), Article
I, Entitled, “In General,” § 24-1, Entitled, “Definitions,” Article IV, Entitled,
“Supplementary Zone Regulations,” § 24-163, Entitled, “Accessory Structures and
Garages,” so as to Provide New Standards for Donation Drop Boxes.
Further information may be obtained from the Planning and Code Administration
Department at City Hall, 31 South Summit Avenue, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, or visit the City’s website at www.gaithersburgmd.gov.
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AROUND THE COUNTY
Council, advocates push for healthy school foods
District ofﬁcials cite
student choices, other
obstacles
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BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County Council
members and local advocates want
healthier foods in school cafeterias,
but district ofﬁcials say they’re already doing what they can.
A recent push for multiple
changes to school foods from parent advocacy group Real Food for
Kids-Montgomery spurred the conversation Thursday during a joint
meeting of the County Council’s
education and health and human
services committees.
The discussion covered the full
gamut of changes the organization
is calling for: more scratch-cooked
food, healthier a la carte and vending items, the removal of chemical
additives, an upper-limit for sugar
content, unlimited drinking water,
and unlimited fruits and vegetables,
among others.
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr
and other school ofﬁcials attended
the meeting, along with Real Food
for Kids-Montgomery co-founder
Karen Devitt.
The organization had gathered
about 818 signatures as of Monday on an online petition for the
changes.
County Council President Craig
Rice said during the meeting that
he thinks the school system has
worked to provide healthier foods.
But he also compared current
school menu items to those found
in a food court.
Rice said he thinks students will
warm up to healthier options if the
school system provides them.
“If a chicken breast is all that’s
available on that Tuesday, eventually kids are going to start to eat
chicken breast, and they’re going to
start to be fans of it,” he said.
Marla Caplon, director of food
and nutrition services for the school
system, said the school system has
developed food items containing
healthy ingredients that students
with picky palates will eat. Some
examples are turkey hot dogs and
white-meat, whole-grain breaded,
baked chicken nuggets.
“What’s important is that we
provide food items to students that
they will eat,” she said.
County Council Vice President George Leventhal said items
like pizza, burgers and hot dogs
should not be frequent menu items
in school cafeterias — even with
healthier ingredients — because of
the message it sends to students.
“If the school system, which
is the institutional authority with
which our kids must interact for
all of their childhood, conveys that
burgers and fries are a desirable
and appropriate menu item, then
the message that’s received by our
kids is that it’s appropriate and it’s
desireable to seek out burgers and
fries,” Leventhal said.
Starr pointed to media advertisements for burgers and fries,
saying he thinks public schools are
“asked to solve societal issues.”
The school system is “pushing”
students with different menu items,
he said, but offers food familiar to
them, as well.
“A healthy burger and healthier
fries are better than no food at all,”
Starr said. “Kids who are hungry
aren’t going to learn effectively.”
The school system also must
balance ﬁnancial needs, he said. The
system spends about $560,000 on
wheat buns; the same amount could
pay for seven teachers, he said.
Devitt said the organization’s
members are “asking for a little
more creativity” on healthy menu
items.
She highlighted two issues of
importance to the organization:
lowering sugar content and pulling
chemical additives.
Current items with high sugar
content or additives can be replaced
with healthier versions “without
huge cost impacts,” she said.
School officials emphasized
that the school system meets federal and other food regulations, including those of the Food and Drug
Administration and the American
Heart Association.
Lindsey Parsons, Real Food
for Kids-Montgomery’s other cofounder, said before the meeting
that the group plans to collect petition signatures for a couple of
months, then present them to Starr
and the school board in May.
The group helped host a forum
on healthful food in county schools
in November.
“We are not asking for anything
that has not been done elsewhere
without added costs,” Parsons said.
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InBrief
County Council seeks
planning board member
The Montgomery County Council is seeking
applicants to ﬁll the planning board position
being vacated by Chairwoman Francoise Carrier
(D). Carrier’s term ends June 14; the council is
accepting applications until April 7.
Members provide advice on land use and
community planning, and serve as MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning commissioners.
The new member may be named chairman,
or a current member could become chairman.
No more than three members may be of the
same political party; members must be county
residents and registered voters. Yearly compensation is $30,000; as chairwoman, Carrier earns
$168,450.
The council plans to set the chairman’s salary before choosing an applicant.
The board meets Thursdays and often another day in the week. Typically, it spends two
full days in scheduled and informal meetings
per week.
Applications, including a resume, should
be addressed to Council President Craig Rice,
County Council Ofﬁce, Stella B. Werner Council
Ofﬁce Building, 100 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850. Applications also may be sent to
county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov.
The applications and resumes are made
public. Interviews are conducted in public and
may be televised.
For more information, contact Linda Lauer
at 240-777-7979 or linda.lauer@montgomerycountymd.gov.
Recreation job fair is Friday in Rockville
The Montgomery County Recreation Department will host a job fair for summer camp
workers and year-round temporary staff from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Bauer Drive Community Recreation Center, 14625 Bauer Drive,
Rockville.
The department typically hires more than
300 summer camp and temporary staff to ﬁll
positions that include camp counselors, pool
aides and therapeutic recreation assistants.
Representatives from aquatics, community
centers, summer programs, teen programs and
therapeutic recreation will be available to discuss the part-time, temporary jobs available and
offer on-site prescreening interviews, according
to a county news release.
The free job fair, scheduled on a professional
day holiday for public school students, is for
youth 16 and older, college students and teachers. For more information, call 240-777-6810.
Let’s talk about bullying
The Montgomery County Committee on
Hate and Violence, the Montgomery County
Ofﬁce of Human Rights and Montgomery College will host a community forum, “Bullying in
Schools — A Community Symposium on Prevention and Intervention Strategies.”
The forum will be from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Saturday at the Montgomery College Takoma
Park/Silver Spring Campus Cultural Arts Center,
7995 Georgia Ave.
For more information, call 240-777-8454 or
email CommitteeonHateViolence@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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Maka Hutson of Bethesda holds her son, Alec, 7, as he sprays water onto a sensor that lights up an umbrella during the H20 Summit on Saturday sponsored by
the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Silver Spring. The water fair featured live music, speakers, workshops and hands-on activities for families.
Germantown man convicted of sex trafﬁcking
Jury acquits Jean Claude
Roy of other criminal counts
n
BY
TIFFANY ARNOLD
STAFF WRITER
A federal jury convicted a Germantown man of ﬁve counts related to a sex-trafﬁcking case.
Jean Claude Roy, 31, was found
guilty March 19 of conspiracy to
commit sex trafficking by force,
fraud and coercion; witness and
evidence tampering; and three
counts of interstate transportation
for prostitution.
ButthejuryacquittedRoyofthree
other counts of sex trafﬁcking by force
and two weapons offenses, according
to records ﬁled in federal court.
“We respect the jury’s decision
and we think the trial was fair,” said
Michael Montemarano, Roy’s attorney.
Montemarano said the acquittal reduced Roy’s possible sentence
by at least 45 years.
Roy still faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for conspiracy
to commit sex trafﬁcking; a maximum of 10 years in prison for each of
three counts of interstate transportation for prostitution; and a maximum of 20 years in prison for witness
and evidence tampering, the U.S. At-
torney’s ofﬁce said in a news release.
The verdict capped a two-week
trial in U.S. District Court.
Authorities said Roy and
his female co-conspirator ran a
cross-country prostitution ring.
He bragged about beating a murder charge to scare the women he
pimped out, prosecutors claimed
in court records.
The women’s services were advertised in online ads.
A 25-page indictment outlines
what the victims endured at the
hands of Roy and co-conspirator
Brittney “Kitty Amor” Creason, 19,
of Decatur, Ill., including an incident in which a female victim was
forced to have sex with Roy while
Creason held her down.
Creason, who was arrested in
Las Vegas in July 2013, pleaded
guilty to using a facility in interstate
commerce for an illegal activity.
She is awaiting sentencing.
The tampering charge against
Roy stems from an incident that
happened while he was jailed on related state charges in January 2013.
Prosecutors allege that Roy asked
a person on the outside to destroy
evidence tied to the case.
Sentencing for Roy is scheduled
for July 16.
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Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, is offering a scholarship opportunity to all
Montgomery County high school seniors.
Scholarship applicants are judged on academic achievement, community service and
ﬁnancial need. Up to four scholarship awards
are made annually and the maximum award is
$1,500.
Applications are due Saturday and are at
pvacfundinc.org. Public schools’ college and
career center also have applications.
For information, email pvacfund@pvacfundinc.org.
Horse show seeks teens
The Washington International Horse Show
is accepting applications for its Junior Committee and Youth Ambassador programs, which
offer teen representation of the show and help
staff. Applications are due April 7; the show will
be in October at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.
Applicants must be 14 to 18 years old and be
knowledgeable about horses. About 20 students
will be accepted to the Junior Committees, of
which the youth ambassador is chairman. More
information and applications are at wihs.org/
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 g
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Quicken Loans will become new
Tiger Woods tournament sponsor
Fold thusly
As Congressional
members vote, Woods says
he is ‘looking at all options’
for next year and beyond
n
BY
KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
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Beatrice Weiss of Derwood creates an origami crane during Saturday’s Japanese cultural fair at the Bauer
Drive Community Center in Rockville. The Montgomery County Recreation Department and Sakura Educational
Exchange USA co-hosted the fair. It featured students from Yokohama (Japan) Hayato High School, who
demonstrated Japanese arts, games and customs.
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Quicken Loans is the new
title sponsor for June’s annual
golf tournament beneﬁtting the
Tigers Woods Foundation at
Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda, ofﬁcials said Monday.
But the question of where
the former AT&T National tournament will be after this year is
still swinging in the air.
During a news conference
on Monday, Woods said he
hopes Congressional will be
the host site under an alternate
plan in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
Members of the Bethesda club
are voting through March 31 on
whether to allow the event there
in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and at an
unspeciﬁed venue in 2015, 2017
and 2019.
“We’re excited to host the
event this year at Congressional,” Woods said, according to
a transcript of the news conference supplied by his foundation.
“What a storied golf course, a
U.S. Open site. I’ve won there,
so that helps.”
Tournament officials and
Woods are reviewing other
courses for the Quicken Loans
National, they said. Even if
members approve the proposal,
they still have to ﬁnd a site for
next year and alternate years.
One other Montgomery
County course Woods and others are looking at is TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, which
was a regular stop on the PGA
Tour for more than a decade and
last hosted the Booz Allen Classic in 2006. Woods also mentioned Robert Trent Jones Golf
Club in Gainesville, Va., which
has held the Presidents Cup several times, as another possibility.
“There’s a lot of really nice
golf courses in the area,” Woods
said. “We’d like to keep it in the
D.C. community. This is where
we started with this event.
There’s all these options out
there, and we’re looking at all
options right now.”
The tournament, which has
been held at Congressional most
years since 2007, is in the last
year of its contract. Some members have complained that the
tournament cuts too much into
their use of the country club.
Emily Taylor, a spokeswoman for Woods’ foundation,
said that results of the Congressional members’ vote are not
expected until early April.
AT&T taking a lesser
role in sponsorship
AT&T’s sponsorship was
through 2014, but leaders of
the telecommunications giant
agreed to take a lesser role this
year as founding sponsor, allowing Quicken Loans to take the
lead immediately.
Quicken Loans’ contract as
the title sponsor for the event
runs through 2017. The Detroitbased company is one of the
country’s largest retail mortgage
lenders.
The company is title sponsor
of NASCAR Sprint Cup races in
Michigan and Phoenix this year,
and chairman Dan Gilbert is
also majority owner of the NBA’s
Cleveland Cavaliers.
Last year, the company
closed a record $80 billion worth
of home loans, up from about
$70 billion in 2012 and $30 billion in 2011.
This year’s Congressional
tournament is slated for June
23-29. Woods won the event in
2009 and 2012. Last year, Woods
pulled out due to an injury, and
former Wake Forest All-American Bill Haas won the tournament.
Woods has been hampered
by a back injury recently and
said Monday it was “too soon”
There’s all these
options out there,
and we’re looking
at all options
right now.”
Tiger Woods
to say if he would be able to play
in the Masters Tournament, one
of four major pro golf events
each year. That tournament is
slated for April 10-13 in Augusta,
Ga.
“I’ve had a couple weeks off
getting treatment, just working
on trying to get ready for Augusta,” Woods said. “As of right
now, it’s still too soon. As I said,
it’s very frustrating.”
The 2009 Congressional
event saw its highest weeklong
attendance of about 194,000
spectators, generating an estimated $29.1 million in direct
and indirect spending in the
county, according to a study
commissioned by the Montgomery County Department of
Economic Development.
Last year, with Woods out,
about 147,000 people attended,
the second most for the event
when it was held in Bethesda.
The tournament attracted about
193,000 and 150,000 fans in 2010
and 2011, respectively, when
it was at the Aronimink Golf
Club near Philadelphia while
Congressional prepared for and
hosted the 2011 U.S. Open.
Since 2007, the tournament
has raised about $17 million for
college-access programs of the
Tiger Woods Foundation and
other charities. The foundation
operates several Tiger Woods
Learning Centers in the Washington, D.C., area.
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Local leaders aim for regional approach to address issues
n
Rice: Minimum wage
bill set tone for
cooperative work
BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
After the success late last year
in coordinating passage of a minimum wage bill among Montgomery and Prince George’s
counties and the District of Columbia, leaders from local jurisdictions will meet periodically to
address regional issues.
Montgomery County Council President Craig L. Rice (D-
Dist. 2) of Germantown hosted
the heads of the Prince George’s,
Howard and Arlington county
councils and the Washington,
D.C., council on March 19 in
Rockville, in the first of what
leaders hope is an ongoing series of meetings.
The event was a great discussion that centered on issues
such as economic development
and transportation, Rice said
Monday.
The different jurisdictions
in the Washington area need to
start approaching transportation from a more regional approach, he said.
After the recession, more
collaboration is needed than in
the past, when counties were
more likely to tackle big projects
on their own, he said.
While Montgomery is planning a bus rapid transit system
and Howard is also looking at
the possibility of a similar system or light-rail project, there
hasn’t been any discussion
about collaborating despite the
fact that commuters don’t stop
at the county line, Rice said.
Rice said the group hopes
to meet every few months, and
the next meeting could include
looking at how to address issues
facing returning veterans, such
as providing workforce develop-
ment training and robust mental health services.
The four jurisdictions are
members of the Metropolitan
Washington Council of Governments, a group of counties and
municipalities that stretches
from Frederick County to
Charles County, Md. and Prince
William County, Va.
Rice said in a release that the
March 19 meeting was a chance
for leaders to meet in a less
formal environment than the
group’s ofﬁcial meetings.
He pointed to the coordination in November between ofﬁcials in the District, Montgomery
and Prince George’s in passing
minimum wage increases in
each jurisdiction as a model for
similar efforts in the future.
Each of the jurisdictions
will raise the minimum wage
to $11.50 an hour by 2016 in the
District and 2017 in Montgomery and Prince George’s.
Calvin Ball, chairman of the
Howard County Council, said
collaboration would help jurisdictions ﬁgure out how to make
their proposals more effective
when they’re seeking more state
and federal money.
The coalition can also address issues such as economic
development and environmental sustainability, Ball said.
Ball said he’d also be interested in looking at how the region can leverage its economic
development abilities to attract
companies looking to relocate.
There will be times when it
makes sense for a certain business
to be located in one county or another, and the areas can compete
to draw those businesses, he said.
But if they’re looking to attract a certain industry or business, one ofﬁce could be located
in Howard and another in Montgomery, or some other combination that benefits multiple
jurisdictions, he said.
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Pollard: Montgomery College needs $8 million more from county
Funds would go to new
bioscience center, faculty
n
BY
LINDSAY A. POWERS
STAFF WRITER
Montgomery College’s
president said the school needs
county money to staff a new bioscience center and add full-time
faculty that County Executive
Isiah Leggett did not include in
his proposed operating budget.
President DeRionne P. Pollard said Leggett recommended
about $11 million more than the
county gave the college this ﬁscal year. The college, however,
hoped for about $19 million
more, for a total budget of $244.4
million, she said.
The college plans to direct
the extra $11 million toward increasing employee compensation and beneﬁts, Pollard said.
The salary increase in ﬁscal
2015 would be the second bump
for college employees after there
were furloughs in ﬁscal 2010 and
no increases in ﬁscal years 2011
to 2013, she said.
The remaining $8 million would go toward 38 staff
positions in the college’s new
Bioscience Education Center,
which is set to open this fall on
its Germantown campus. It also
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would pay for 13 new full-time
faculty positions in various subjects, current nursing staff at the
college’s Takoma Park/Silver
Spring campus and marketing.
On March 17, Leggett proposed a $4.97 billion operating
budget for ﬁscal 2015 that marks
a growth of 3.4 percent from the
ﬁscal 2014 budget.
The proposed budget provides more money for schools,
police and programs for youth
and seniors, including about
$1.5 billion for Montgomery
County Public Schools.
Superintendent Joshua
P. Starr has said he hopes the
County Council agrees to fund
the roughly $15 million Leggett
did not include for the district.
Pollard is also asking the
council to fill its budget gap,
saying Montgomery College’s
work is essential and the college
needs to accommodate students
from the county school system.
The college needs the extra
$8 million in part to pay for lab
coordinators, information technology specialists, facilities staff
and other positions to staff its
new bioscience center, she said.
The college already budgeted
a tuition increase of $3 per credit
hour for local residents, $6 per
credit hour for state residents,
and $9 per credit hour for outof-state residents. Without extra
funding, Pollard said the college
will consider a larger increase.
Pollard said the 13 new fulltime faculty members would
help the college ﬁll and add faculty positions in disciplines such
as math and science following
losses during the recession.
The college wants about 60
percent of its courses taught by
full-time faculty and the rest by
part-time faculty, she said.
In several disciplines, she
said, “we are not at that ratio.”
The extra money also would
cover nursing program staff that
the college previously funded
through a state grant that expired, Pollard said.
The college also would partially channel funds toward expanded community outreach
efforts in response to changing
demographics, she said.
Council President Craig L.
Rice (D-Dist. 15) of Germantown said council members will
see what they can do to help
support the college’s mission as
they analyze funding requests.
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mine when it comes to work
force and economic development and also a core tenet of
mine when it comes to education,” he said.
County Councilman Philip
M. Andrews (D-Dist. 3) of Gaithersburg said bioscience center
staff sounds like the most pressing need because the county
wants the building fully used.
On a possible tuition increase to help cover costs,
Andrews said the county has
helped the college keep its tuition “reasonable.”
“We want to make sure that
tuition at the college doesn’t
reach a point where it becomes a
barrier for a signiﬁcant number
of people to go to Montgomery
College,” he said.
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Nonproﬁt offering housing for homeless vets Bail denied for man
n
charged in homicide
Darnestown shelter
helps people with
mental illness
n
BY JENN DAVIS
STAFF WRITER
Homeless veterans suffering
from mental illnesses will have
a warm place to rest in Darnestown and a supportive living
environment to get back on their
feet.
On March 19, the Montgomery County Coalition for the
Homeless unveiled its newest
Safe Havens program, which is
aimed at serving homeless veterans with persistent mental illness.
“It’s a new initiative for us
— serving homeless veterans
— and we’re very honored to be
playing that role in Montgomery County,” said Susie SinclairSmith, the coalition’s executive
director.
The Department of Veterans
Affairs Capitol Health Care Network — which includes the Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,
veterans affairs medical centers
— recently awarded a grant to
the coalition for low-barrier Safe
Haven emergency housing for
15 homeless veterans.
The nonproﬁt has secured
funding for the program for one
year. Funding can be renewed
for up to ﬁve years.
Low-barrier housing means
residents only need to meet limited criteria.
The Darnestown Road shelter is the ﬁrst one to open. It
can serve seven male veterans
at one time, with the average
length of stay hovering around
six months. Three bedrooms
can house two residents each
and the fourth bedroom is for a
single occupant.
Three men, all veterans of
the Vietnam War, currently live
at the shelter. In mid-March,
two were brought in from an
emergency shelter and one
came in off the streets, SinclairSmith said.
The Department of Veterans Affairs processes the men’s
referrals.
Staffed around the clock, the
program provides services such
as medication monitoring, case
management and skills develop-
BY
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
Leah Lyons (right), a case manager with the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless, leads a tour of the new
Safe Haven emergency housing for homeless veterans in Darnestown on March 19.
GREG DOHLER/THE GAZETTE
The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless is providing emergency
shelter for homeless veterans in this house on Darnestown Road in Darnestown.
ment.
“We work with residents at
their pace,” said Nili Soni, the
Safe Havens program director.
Keshav Rai, the house
manager, oversees medication
monitoring and keeps up with
day-to-day chores in the house,
like grocery shopping.
“I’m pretty much looking
after the safety, well-being and
security of the house,” he said.
Aside from a kitchen, dining
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among other tasks, said Leah Lyons, the program’s case manager.
Lyons said she tries to meet
weekly with each resident to go
over their speciﬁc needs and give
them access to assistance, including local treatment centers.
“The main areas with people
coming in here ... you’re looking
at homelessness, you’re looking
at mental illness, you’re looking
at substance abuse,” she said.
“So those are three areas that
we see that we are really trying
to target.”
With all of the resources provided, Sinclair-Smith hopes the
veterans will have time to heal
and regain their independence.
“Because we’ve seen so
many people in our Safe Havens
program move on to permanent
supportive housing ... we want
the same for these veterans,”
she said.
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Bail was denied for the
man charged in the killing of
Marc St. Aubin, the 23-yearold found dead in his own
driveway near Aspen Hill earlier this month.
Tavon Antonio Miles, 26,
of the 19600 block of Framingham Drive in Gaithersburg was
charged with ﬁrst-degree murder, ﬁrst-degree burglary and
armed robbery on Saturday.
Montgomery County
District Court Judge Karla N.
Smith upheld his no-bail status Monday at a bail review
hearing. Miles is being held at
Montgomery County Detention Center pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for
April 18.
Police allege that Miles was
part of a group of robbers who
went to St. Aubin’s house in the
15800 block of Laughlin Lane
looking for cash and marijuana
the night of March 3.
Despite the apparent motive, there was no history of
calls or complaints about illegal activity at the home,
Montgomery County Police
spokeswoman Rebecca Innocenti said.
The robbery sparked a
scufﬂe that resulted in St. Aubin’s death and left Miles with
a gunshot wound.
An autopsy by the Ofﬁce
of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled St. Aubin’s death
as a homicide. According to a
police news release, St. Aubin
had blunt force injuries and
a stab wound. People in the
home at the time of the shooting moved him to the driveway
MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE
Tavon Antonio Miles was charged
with ﬁrst-degree murder, ﬁrstdegree burglary and armed robbery.
so he could be taken to the
hospital.
Meanwhile, police said in
their release, other witnesses
began to remove items from
the house, including guns, a
safe and suspected marijuana.
Detectives are working to
identify suspects.
Shots were ﬁred during the
scufﬂe with the robbers, but
it’s unclear who was shooting,
Innocenti said.
Miles was wounded by a
.380-caliber bullet and had to
be taken to the hospital. Police said a bullet found in his
clothes matched those found
at the scene. Detectives determined that all of the bullets
recovered from the scene were
ﬁred from the same gun, Innocenti said.
St. Aubin had a gun of
the same caliber registered
through Maryland. There was
an empty gun holster along
the small of his back when
police found him dead, police
said in a news release.
Detectives have not recovered the gun.
“It’s still unclear whether it
was used in this crime at all,”
Innocenti said.
No attorney was listed
for Miles in court records accessed online.
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Shapiro brothers building on success
Family HVAC and
plumbing business is a
$100-million-a-year company
n
BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
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TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Sheldon Shapiro of Shapiro & Duncan is pictured on March 10 at the
company’s Landover facility.
vinced him to change his mind.
“In the construction industry
there are a tremendous amount
of opportunities,” Sheldon said.
“People can do whatever they
want to be able to do. It’s one of
the few industries where you can
really do what you want to.”
Jerry said his father David did
not want to expand the business
but decided to pass it on to his
sons and give them the chance
to build upon his success.
“He saw that we wanted
to grow the business and he
thought it would be a good idea
for himself to step down and
give us the business and let us
grow,” Jerry said. “It was great
foresight on him.”
As president, Jerry oversees
pre-construction, estimating for
bidding projects and business
development. As CEO, Sheldon
oversees operations, ﬁnancials
and continued improvement.
As Sheldon put it, one brother
gets the work in the door while
the other makes sure the work
gets done.
This dynamic improves the
brothers’ relationship as business partners.
“It’s nice to have a partner,”
Sheldon said. “The trust level is
great.”
“I wish I had two more brothers so I could do even more. It’s
been great,” Jerry said. “We feed
off each other and depend on
each other to do what we do.”
The company grew during each economic downturn,
the Shapiros said, except dur-
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Jerry and Sheldon Shapiro
are businessmen, brothers, and
practical jokesters.
They have been known
to hide office entrances with
drywall or shrink an ofﬁce to
the size of a closet with cinder
blocks.
But when it comes to their
life’s work — producing highquality HVAC and plumbing
systems and training skilled
employees — there’s no joking
around.
The Shapiro brothers own
and operate Shapiro & Duncan, a
Rockville-based commercial mechanical contractor that provides
heating, ventilation, air conditioning and plumbing services
to construction projects. Major
projects include INOVA Fairfax
Hospital, the new Gaithersburg
High School and the Warriors
Transition Unit at Walter Reed.
Three generations of Shapiros have worked in plumbing
and mechanical contracting.
The Shapiros’ grandfather, Jake
Shapiro, operated a Washing-
ton, D.C., plumbing business,
J. Shapiro Plumbing & Heating.
Their parents, David and Marcia Shapiro, started Shapiro &
Duncan in 1976 as a nonunion
mechanical contracting company. David Shapiro added the
name “Duncan” simply to differentiate the business from his
father’s, the brothers said.
When the brothers took
over the company 20 years ago,
Shapiro & Duncan had only 20
employees and completed $4
million in business annually.
Today, the company employs
more than 350 people and completes about $100 million in
business annually.
Although the brothers said
it was “in their genes” to do this
kind of work, neither brother aspired to join the family business
or pursue careers in the construction industry.
“I started college in 1978,
and at that time construction
was struggling,” Jerry said. “My
father did not encourage me to
go into the business, but working for him every summer I
showed an interest, and when
it was time to graduate, this is
what I wanted to do.”
Sheldon said the last thing
he wanted to do was work for the
family business, but the creativity
of the construction industry con-
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Gerald “Jerry” Shapiro is a small-business owner who was recognized as the
Small Business Leader of the Year by the Montgomery County Chamber of
Commerce.
ing the last recession. Although
the recession forced Shapiro &
Duncan to lay off employees, the
Shapiros took advantage of this
time to focus on improving the
business. They gained expertise
in 3-D modeling and continued
to develop their pipe prefabrication systems, which are housed
in a former Giant Food warehouse in Landover.
The pipe prefabrication
process has been essential to
Shapiro & Duncan’s success,
the brothers said. Before prefabrication, construction workers
and plumbers would need to
gather all of the supplies needed
to build a pipe system and put
it together piece by piece at the
construction site. With prefabrication, a system of pipes is constructed off-site. The entire unit
is delivered to a project site and
then installed by connecting it to
other pipe systems.
Prefabricating pipes has
helped Shapiro & Duncan win
project bids and secure contracts, said Mark Drury, the vice
president of business development for the company.
“It was a big cultural
change,” Drury said. “There was
a lot of fear that it would eliminate jobs but instead it allowed
us to do more work and hire
more people and work more effectively, efﬁciently and safely.”
One of the most signiﬁcant
projects completed by Shapiro &
Duncan in Montgomery County
was the new Gaithersburg High
School, which was less than 50
percent complete when they arrived. The brothers believe they
have worked on projects at every
school in Montgomery County.
Jerry, who was named the
Small Business Leader of the
Year by the Montgomery County
Chamber of Commerce in November, said passing the business
on to his children is a possible
plan for the future, but not yet.
“We don’t know if they’re
going to want to do that or be
ready to do that, but it’s going
to keep me here to make sure I
can give them that opportunity,”
Jerry said. “It’s not a formal plan
yet, but it’s a possible plan. It’s
a 10-year process to see if it’s
something they can do.”
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Page A-9
Program for female candidates helped motivate Daly’s run
n
Council hopeful says Emerge
Maryland class gave her
conﬁdence to seek ofﬁce
BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
Although she’s been politically active for more than two decades, until
this year, Beth Daly had never run for
ofﬁce.
Daly, 51, of Dickerson, said she’s always been active in other people’s political campaigns, but had never even
run for student body president or class
treasurer.
In June 2013, Daly was one of 21
graduates from the inaugural class of
Emerge Maryland, a group dedicated
to helping women seek and win public
ofﬁce.
During the six-month training,
members learned about areas such as
fundraising, ﬁeld work and using social
media to help campaigns.
Now Daly is putting the training to
use running as an at-large candidate for
Montgomery County Council.
She said her experience in Emerge
Maryland gave her the conﬁdence to
mount her race to seek one of the four
at-large seats on the nine-member
council.
Daly listed her main issues as responsible growth, affordable housing,
schools and libraries, environmental
issues and traffic
and transportation.
She’s especially
bothered by the
number of portable
classrooms at the
county’s schools,
which she said is
Skolnick
emblematic of the
current council’s habit of approving
development without considering all
the possible ramiﬁcations on resources
such as schools and roads.
Daly said she’s not anti-development, but believes the county needs
to do a better job of looking at projects more critically and negotiating
with developers to get concessions
to possibly lessen the impact on the
county.
Running for one of four at-large
seats makes it easier for her to sell her
positions to voters, because she doesn’t
have to persuade them to vote against
a speciﬁc incumbent as she would in a
district race, she said.
She said she thinks she’s qualiﬁed
to represent the whole county as an atlarge candidate.
A former staff member for former
Ohio Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D),
she lived in Bethesda and Kensington
for 10 years before moving to Dickerson, where she’s lived for 14 years.
With the upcounty region growing
fast, at least one of the at-large members should live in there, Daly said.
Current at-large council members
George L. Leventhal (D), Marc Elrich
(D) and Hans Riemer (D) live in Takoma Park, while Nancy Floreen (D)
lives in Garrett Park.
Daly said she’d also like to join Floreen and Councilwoman Nancy Navarro (D-Dist. 4) of Silver Spring as the
only women on the council once Councilwoman Cherri Branson (D-Dist. 5) of
Silver Spring leaves at the end of her
term in December.
Branson was appointed in January
to ﬁll the vacancy left by the resignation
of Councilwoman Valerie Ervin and
agreed not to run in the 2014 election
as part of her appointment.
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Republican council candidate Skolnick seeks Montgomery moderates
At-large candidate
wooing independents,
non-traditional GOP voters
n
BY
RYAN MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
Shelly Skolnick realizes the
odds are against him.
As a Republican running
for an at-large council seat in
heavily-Democratic Montgomery County, Skolnick knows
he’ll have to reach moderates
and non-traditional Republican
voters to get his message across.
In Montgomery, registered
Democrats outnumber the more vote Republican.
than 125,000 registered RepubliHe will also be standing at
cans nearly three-to-one.
Metro stations and busy interBut Skolnick said
sections to present
a lot of independents
himself to voters and
and political modertell them about his
ates are registered as
ideas.
Democrats, so they
Those include
can vote in the party’s
pushing for a repeal
primary.
of the state’s mainteRepublicans need
nance of effort laws for
to employ a “big tent”
schools, which require
Skolnick
strategy to get ofﬁcials
counties to contribelected in Montgomery, he said. ute at least the same amount of
Skolnick, 70, of Silver Spring, funding per student from year
said he is trying to reach minori- to year.
ties, union workers and other
The law is a deterrent from
groups who may not usually spending on schools because it
raises the bar each year for what
has to be spent, he said.
“I just think it’s a foolish
law,” he said.
Skolnick also would turn the
high-occupancy vehicle lanes
on roadways such as Interstate
270 into toll lanes. Tolls would
depend on the time of day.
He also proposes using public-private partnerships to create
indoor waiting facilities for bus
riders and encourage people to
use public transportation.
If the county is serious about
getting people out of their cars
and onto public transit, it need
to make it attractive, he said.
He envisions a pilot program
of travel centers with features
such as take-out restaurants,
coffee shops and wireless Internet access for passengers waiting to ride commuter buses.
The centers also could be
used to create hubs for the
RideOn bus service at the Lakeforest and Montgomery malls
and Glenmont and Shady Grove
Metro stations. They could be
expanded to shopping centers
and other areas if they’re successful, he said.
Skolnick ﬁnished third in a
Republican primary for Maryland’s 8th District in Congress
in 2012.
He is one of four Republicans running for four at-large
council seats in the June 24 primary, along with Robert Dyer,
Chris P. Fiotes Jr. and Adol T.
Owen-Williams II. All four will
advance to the Nov. 4 general
election.
The council’s four at-large
seats are currently held by
George L. Leventhal of Takoma
Park, Marc Elrich of Takoma
Park, Nancy Floreen of Garrett Park and Hans Riemer of
Takoma Park, all of whom are
running for re-election in a
Democratic primary.
Montgomery gubernatorial candidates cancel on students in Rockville
Forum only attended
by GOP candidates
BY
KATE S. ALEXANDER
STAFF WRITER
Students hosting a gubernatorial form at the Universities at
Shady Grove got stood up Monday by all but one candidate for
governor and one for lieutenant
governor.
Heather R. Mizeur (D),
Douglas F. Gansler (D), David R.
Craig (R) and Charles Lollar (R)
were all scheduled to speak at
the forum.
But only Craig and Lollar’s
running mate, Ken Timmerman
(R), showed.
Mizeur and Gansler — the
two Montgomery County residents in the race — both had
last-minute scheduling conﬂicts
that forced them to cancel on the
students Monday morning, their
campaign representatives said.
“I wasn’t expecting lastminute cancellations. I was being too optimistic,” said Carlos
Moya, president of the Political
Science Student Organization
at USG, which hosted the event.
“But I know that politics can get
in the way. I am hoping we can
have another forum.”
Moya said the organiza-
account for their record,” Timmerman said in his opening
speech.
When asked later, he said
it would have been good to exchange points of view, to hear
what other candidates had to say.
At least with Craig and for
Lollar, the students and community members who attended
were informed of where those
candidates and their running
mates stand on issues, said Alfredo Ballon, past president of
the Political Science Students
Organization.
“We understand,” he said of
the cancellations. “We were sad
to hear they could not make it,
but we are thankful that both
County Executive Craig and
lieutenant governor [candidate]
Timmerman were here.”
Students questioned Craig
and Timmerman on a broad
set of issues ranging from education, marijuana legalization
and the minimum wage, to the
state budget shortfall, taxes and
transportation.
As a Harford County executive, Craig said, he has
lowered taxes, grew jobs and
also maintained programs.
“It can be done,” he said.
Timmerman promised that
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gas tax and halt the Purple Line.
A 16-mile light-rail line proposed to connect Bethesda to
New Carrollton, the Purple Line
is a “two-billion-dollar boondoggle,” Timmerman said.
“The only thing light about
light rail is its capacity,” he said.
When asked about closing
the achievement gap, Craig,
a former teacher, said the
key to education is for teachers to be allowed to teach.
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tion hosted the forum with the
intent to have both parties represented. He said they invited
all the candidates running for
governor in 2014 to participate.
He also said he would like to
try again to host a forum where
Democratic candidates for governor can attend.
Lollar was unable to attend
because he was out of town.
Timmerman did not pass on
the opportunity to criticize the
Democrats who canceled on the
students Monday morning.
“I’m a bit disappointed
some of our Democratic adversaries, opponents, colleagues
did not show up this morning to
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BREWERS
Continued from Page A-1
pert — Danny Glazier.
On Jan. 25, Brotherhood
Brewing gathered on Cuginis
patio with Smith and bar patrons, brewing the winning beer.
To make Fire Drill, Danny
said, they steeped the grains in
near-boiling water, and over
several hours added in hops
and malt every 20 to 40 minutes.
Finally you “pitch the yeast,”
to begin the fermentation process, Danny said. Over the next
month, the beer ferments and
gets bottle conditioned, during
which “basically it’s carbonating itself in the bottle,” he said.
For ﬂavor and heat, during
the fermentation process “we
just peeled the ginger, crushed it,
then sliced up the habanero and
put them in,” creating a piquant
single-hop pale ale. Danny called
it a mild pale ale, with a touch of
bitterness and spice.
“It’s not overly spicy. It kind
of burns on the way down a little,” he said.
Smith said, “It was tasty, a
little bit of ﬁery bite to it. I think
it would be great with some sushi.”
For winning at the county
level, Widmer will throw a party
at Cuginis this spring, and gave
the bar a beer brewing kit.
Now the habanero ginger
pale ale is in New Hampshire,
where judges at Red Hook
Brewery, another brewery in the
Craft Brew Alliance, will choose
the best home-brew among
Fire Drill, three other Maryland
brews and one from Washington, D.C. The winner will be
announced April 2 at the Hops
N Tots Hoppy Hour at the Maritime Museum in Annapolis.
If Fire Drill wins, Stull and
Danny will go to New Hampshire to brew the beer at Red
Hook for limited release sale
at Cuginis. Turning the homespun batches into a business
piques Danny’s interest, but is
still a long way off if the group
ever decided to do that, he said.
For now he said he will continue
to build Poolesville’s beer empire through Cuginis, and brewing in his backyard in Frederick.
During the past five years,
Danny has stocked an arsenal of
morethan70craftbeersatCuginis,
making it a local hot spot for beer.
“I’m there at least two,
maybe three times a week,”
Ken Barger said. “It seems like
weekly [the bar is] having an
event with either a local brew-
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Danny Glazier’s “Fire Drill,” a habanero ginger pale ale.
ery or a craft brew specialist.”
The bar is hosting a pint night
with Kona Brewing on April 18.
Barger said these events have
begun to draw crowds of craftbeer seekers from outside the
small town. Often, “it’s standing
room only,” he said.
And patrons who try more
than 50 different beers can say
they’ve conquered the Cuginis
50 Notch Challenge, and show it
off with a free T-shirt.
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WEATHER
DEATH
30-year normal, with January,
February and March all considerably colder.
Lefﬂer said his interest in
weather dates to his childhood.
After studying it in college, he
landed a job with the National
Weather Service. Almost a decade later, he volunteered to
run the weather station now in
his backyard.
Leffler is a Montgomery County resident of 58
years and has been reporting
weather since the early 1970s.
He said other than his wife,
Dee, and the equipment used
for observing the weather,
there is not much help in dayto-day operations.
“For a volunteer job, it’s
quite a bit of work,” Leffler
County agreed to pay Ali’s family
$450,000, a settlement to a $150
million lawsuit Ali’s father and
sister ﬁled in 2012.
The ACLU was not involved
with the case.
“If the police ofﬁcer had a
deﬁbrillator, Mr. Ali would have
lived and there would have been
no lawsuit,” Mage said.
Montgomery County police
Capt. Paul Starks said 40 to 50
Montgomery County squad cars
have automated external deﬁbrillators, or AEDs. The county
plans to add more each year until every marked police car has
one.
“We think this is a worthwhile effort,” said Starks, a department spokesman.
But state Del. Ana Sol
Gutiérrez (D-Dist. 18) of Chevy
Chase said the county is moving
too slowly.
Gutiérrez, a board member of the Montgomery County
ACLU, prepared a bill that
would require that any law enforcement vehicle on patrol
in the county — regardless of
where the agency is based — be
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A student is walked to Bethesda
Elementary School during Tuesday’s snowfall.
said. “So I wouldn’t be doing it
unless I enjoyed it.”
Leffler’s weather observation station is part of the
National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program,
and there are more than 8,000
similar volunteer-run stations
across the country.
SEASON’S STATS
2013-14 snowfall totals by
month in comparison to their
30-year averages (in inches).
n December
2013: 9.4
30-year average: 6.4
2013-14 Temperature
averages compared with 30-year
averages
(degrees in Fahrenheit).
n December
2013: 37.2
30-year average: 35.3
n January
2014: 14.3
30-year average: 9.2
n February
2014: 28.3
30-year average: 10.8
n March
2014: 18.9
(as of 4 p.m. Tuesday)
30-year average: 4.0
n Total 2013-14: 71.0 inches
30-year average: 31.2 inches
n January
2014: 26.3
30-year average: 30.8
SETTLEMENT
Continued from Page A-1
n February
2014: 30.8
30-year average: 34.3
Greg Lattimer, an attorney
representing the family members who ﬁled the civil suit, said
Wednesday the family was “relieved” at the outcome.
“A trial would have meant
sitting in the court room listening to how your family member
died, which is extremely trau-
n March
2014: 35.9
30-year average: 42.2
Data are from Robert J.
Lefﬂer in Damascus.
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“It’s not overly spicy. It kind of burns on the way down a little,” says Danny Glazier of his Fire Drill habanero ginger
pale ale. He is shown with Barbara Stull, owner of Cuginis Restaurant and Bar of Poolesville, where he’s a bartender.
equipped with an AED. She said
police would have three years to
equip on-duty vehicles.
“Time is of the essence,”
Gutiérrez said during a hearing
for the bill in February. “After
10 minutes, after cardiac arrest,
whatever you do is not going to
be able to save a life or prevent
serious damage.”
According to the National
Institutes of Health, AEDs are
portable devices that can send
an electric shock to the heart to
restore a normal rhythm after
sudden cardiac arrest, or heart
failure.
A built-in computer checks
a victim’s heart rhythm through
adhesive electrodes. The computer calculates whether deﬁbrillation is needed and tells
the rescuer whether to push the
shock button to jump-start the
heart.
Citing a police report, Mage
said police who arrested Ali in
2010 did not have an AED and it
took Montgomery County Fire &
Rescue personnel 10 minutes to
arrive at the scene.
Starks said personnel tried to
use an AED on Ali when they arrived, but backed off after getting
a “do not shock” reading. He was
unable to corroborate how long
it took MCFRS to arrive.
All MCFRS units are
equipped with AEDs or a cardiac
monitor deﬁbrillator.
Montgomery County police
were among several agencies to
oppose Gutiérrez’s bill. Law enforcement complained that the
bill was an unfunded mandate
and would cause logistical problems to implement and enforce,
particularly for agencies that operate in more than one county.
“One of the major issues that
we are concerned with is that
there’s no funding attached to
this current legislation and really no incremental implementation plan,” Capt. Bob Bolesta
said during the hearing.
Bolesta directs Montgomery
County police’s special operations division, which oversees
distribution of AEDs. He said
the department wants to equip
police cars with defibrillators
within three years.
According to his testimony
at the hearing, equipping the
police department’s 926 vehicles with deﬁbrillators would
cost more than $2 million.
Takoma Park Police Chief
Alan M. Goldberg said equipping its 42 police cars with AEDs
would cost $70,000 — a strain
on the city if they all had to be
implemented at once.
The ACLU argued that lessexpensive units would cut the
cost in half, but local police leaders said they prefer buying the
same units MCFRS uses.
Last month, after Gaithersburg-based Rescue One Training for Life donated 100 AEDs
to Laurel, city ofﬁcials said the
machines would be placed in
all police cars, city facilities and
some other city vehicles.
Gutiérrez said her bill is unlikely to pass this session. She’s
proposed similar legislation before, but it has failed.
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett set aside
$70,000 for 30 more police AEDs
in his proposed ﬁscal year 2015
budget, which begins July 1,
2014.
Gutiérrez said this was good
news.
“If it can be done without
a bill, that’s ﬁne with me,” she
said. “I just think that it needs to
be made a priority.”
Ultimately, Mage said, taxpayers wind up paying for the
county’s lack of AEDs through
civil suits.
matic,” Lattimer said.
On Oct. 10, 2010, a Montgomery County police patrol ofﬁcer found Ali, 65, of the 11600
block of Lockwood Drive in Silver Spring, lying unresponsive
in an apartment stairwell, The
Gazette reported.
The ofﬁcer tried to move Ali
from the stairwell after attempts
to get his attention didn’t work
but this spurred a struggle between Ali and the police. An-
other ofﬁcer arrived, but police
alleged that Ali continued to
resist attempts to be moved
outside. In an attempt to subdue Ali, police pepper sprayed
him and used a handheld Taser
device on him. The lawsuit
claimed that Ali suffered broken
ribs, contusions, abrasions and
bruises from the encounter with
police.
Police told The Gazette in
2010 that Ali was examined
by medical personal after he
was hit by the Taser and pepper sprayed. They treated him
and left, only to be called back
moments later after Ali lost
consciousness in the back of a
police transport van.
Ali was rushed to Holy Cross
hospital, where he died days
later, according to the court records.
On Oct. 15, 2012, Ali’s sister
Renee Coates and his father, Cicero Satterﬁeld, ﬁled a wrongful
death suit against Montgomery
County, seeking $145 million.
The lawsuit claimed Ali’s rights
were violated by police who re-
sponded to a mentally disabled
man with brutality, according to
federal court records.
The lawsuit named the
county and “several” unidentiﬁed 3rd District ofﬁcers as defendants.
Lattimer said the family suffered another blow after Ali’s
death. Satterfield, a Takoma
Park resident and a Tuskeegee
Airmen, died June 6, 2013. Satterﬁeld and Ali were close.
“He was never the same after his son died,” Lattimer said.
Cpt. Paul Starks, a Montgomery County police spokesman, said the department
reviewed the use of force in the
case of Ali, but said he couldn’t
attribute the speciﬁc incident
to changes in police procedure.
The county attorney defended
police policies.
“In our view, the policies
in place with respect to the use
of force are sound and based
on nationally recognized standards,” Hansen said.
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BUSINESS
Swinging in the cold
House passes
new schedule for
releasing regulations
Area golf courses say
snow hurting bottom line
n
BY
KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
Lobbyist says different approach
would ease strain on businesses
n
BY
KEVIN JAMES SHAY
STAFF WRITER
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The snowy winter took its toll on business at Laytonsville Golf Course, says General Manager Matt Jarvis.
U.S. Open, has been available
to its more than 400 members
about 35 percent of the ﬁrst twoand-a-half months.
Multimillion-dollar impact
Maryland’s public and private golf courses have a direct
impact on the economy of about
$727 million annually, factoring
in membership and green fees,
maintenance, sales of clubs,
shoes and other items, according to a 2011 study by research
institute SRI International for the
Maryland Golf Alliance.
The total rises to $1.3 billion
with indirect impacts such as
tourism.
“Golf brings visitors to the
state, drives new construction
and residential development,
generates retail sales and creates
demand for a myriad of goods
and services,” the SRI report says.
The National Golf Foundation recently reported that the
sport’s recovery from the recession is precarious and affected
by the weather. In 2013, the number of rounds played nationally
dropped 4.9 percent from 2012.
Good weather was a key reason
for a 5.7 percent national jump in
rounds played in 2012 from 2011,
the foundation reported.
Montgomery County is in
danger of losing Tiger Woods’
AT&T National, which has been
at Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda most years since 2007.
The 2009 event saw its highest
weeklong attendance, of about
194,000 spectators, and generated an estimated $29.1 million
in direct and indirect spending in
the county, according to a study
commissioned by the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development.
Members of the 90-yearold Congressional are voting
through March 31 on a proposal
that could stage the event at the
Bethesda course in 2016, 2018
and 2020 and at an unspeciﬁed
venue in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
One other Montgomery
County possibility is TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, which
was a regular stop on the PGA
tour for more than a decade and
last hosted the Booz Allen Classic
in 2006.
Montgomery Country Club
has done well hosting the PGA
qualiﬁers, but likely could not
handle the parking and logistical
challenges of a major PGA tour-
nament, Woodruff said.
The club has had good turnouts for dinners and other events
so far this year, and fortunately
has not suffered tree damage,
Woodruff said. But the maintenance crew can’t do much when
there are consistent snowfalls, he
said.
“We can hasten the snow’s
departure somewhat by taking
care of the greens,” Woodruff
said. “But, overall, we pretty
much have to let nature run its
course.”
Laytonsville Golf Course got
in a U.S. Kids Golf Foundation
tournament on Sunday before
another snowstorm happened
Monday.
“The last couple of kids’
groups ﬁnished up while it was
flurrying, but they did finish,”
Jarvis said. “It was nice to see
people out playing and having
fun again. You can tell that people are itching to get back out.”
The snow doesn’t hurt the
condition of the course. In fact,
the lack of trafﬁc gives it a nice
rest, Jarvis said.
“But we’re ready for that rest
to be over,” he said.
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In the ﬁrst 2½ months this
year, Laytonsville Golf Course
was open for business about 25
percent of the time.
Last year, during a much
milder winter, the par-71 course
was open about 85 percent of the
time in the ﬁrst 11 weeks.
“The snow has absolutely
affected the golf course, from a
rounds and revenue standpoint,”
said General Manager Matt
Jarvis. Last year, about 42,000
rounds of golf were played at the
Laytonsville course; this year,
it likely will be in the 35,000 to
39,000 range, he said.
The story is similar at the
eight other public golf courses
operated under the Montgomery County Revenue Authority, a
public corporation that oversees
the courses, Montgomery County
Airpark and other amenities.
In fiscal 2012, the nine
county-run golf courses —
which range from Falls Road
in Potomac to Little Bennett in
Clarksburg — had revenue of
about $16.0 million, according to
MCRA ﬁgures. That was up from
$14.8 million in 2011 and $15.1
million in 2010.
The snow impact story also is
a common theme at the array of
private courses in the county and
statewide.
“This has been a very uncharacteristic winter for the mid-Atlantic region,” said Tim Woodruff,
general manager for the private
Montgomery Country Club off
Md. 108, north of Olney. “Generally, we miss a few days in the winter months, since the snow melts
after a storm. This winter, as soon
as it melts, we get hit again.”
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The Maryland House of Delegates on March 17 approved a measure that business advocates say would make
state regulations easier to deal with. Under the bill, regulations would be released quarterly, rather than letting agencies release changes on a daily basis.
The Senate passed its own version earlier in March.
The bills are being reviewed by legislative committees. The
House Health and Government Operations Committee
scheduled a hearing on the issue for Wednesday.
Having regulations released on a more predictable
schedule, four times a year, will help greatly, rather an overload of new and altered regulations on a daily basis, said
Katie Maloney, a lobbyist for the Maryland State Builders
Association.
“It’s important that businesses have the opportunity to
have not only notice of new regulations, but have some sort
of transition,” Maloney said.
Dealing with regulations is among the three top concerns of members of the National Federation of Independent Business, said Jessica Cooper, director of the
organization’s Maryland operations.
“It’s a big concern for small business,” Cooper said.
“This bill will help make Maryland more small-business
friendly.”
Del. Sam Arora (D-Dist. 19) of Silver Spring, who ﬁled
the House version with Del. Nicholaus R. Kipke (R-Dist.
31) of Pasadena, said it was essentially the same as one the
House and Senate passed last year. Those bills were not
voted on in opposite chambers before the 2013 legislative
session ended, so they failed.
“Having a lot of regulations is not necessarily a bad
thing; it means we care about how our laws are administered,” Arora said during a recent hearing. The bill is “just
adding a measure of predictability.”
The bill would allow for regulations to be released more
often in certain cases, such as those considered to be emergency situations and required by federal law.
The Senate version was ﬁled by Sen. Ronald N. Young
(D-Dist. 3) of Frederick.
State agencies made 2,391 non-emergency regulatory
changes in 2013, about 22 percent more than in 2012, according to the Maryland Register.
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SCHOOL LIFE
EDUCATION NOTEBOOK
Wootton High singers
and dancers in ‘Hairspray’
PEGGY MCEWAN/THE GAZETTE
Yi-Cheng Chen, an architect with Grimm and Parker in Calverton, looks on as high school students work on an elementary school site design during a
break-out session at the Young Professionals Conference on Thursday at the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville.
Students network with business professionals
n
Students experience
solving problems
in the workplace
BY
PEGGY MCEWAN
STAFF WRITER
Students stood around an
elementary school site plan,
moving cutouts of classrooms,
the cafeteria, the gym, playing
ﬁelds and other elements of a
school, working to ﬁt everything on the site in a well-ordered pattern.
They were high school
students interested in architecture and design, learning
ﬁrsthand some of the things
architects and engineers have
to consider when designing a
school.
Site planning was just one
of the opportunities Montgomery County public school
students, mostly high school
juniors, had while participating in workplace scenarios
at the 13th annual Young
Professionals Conference on
Thursday at the Universities at
Shady Grove in Rockville.
One of the conference
sponsors, the Montgomery
County Business Roundtable
for Education, “is all about
connecting students and the
outside world,” said Nikki
Malcolm, program manager
for the group. “These students
are on a chosen career pathway and we bring them businesses from the community.”
The conference was also
sponsored by Montgomery
County Public Schools, the
Universities at Shady Grove
and Montgomery College.
Participants also spent
time learning from businesses that included law,
teaching, ﬁnance, information technology, biosciences,
broadcast media and hospitality, all career pathways
programs offered in county
high schools.
It was an opportunity for
the students to ask questions
of professionals in a ﬁeld they
might pursue, learn about the
education required and the
variety of experiences each
profession offers.
Hanna Berhane, a junior
at Wheaton High School, said
she is studying both aerospace
engineering and digital engineering this year. She isn’t
sure about her future career
but found the presentation by
architects from Grimm and
Parker Architects in Calverton,
interesting.
“It was really interactive,”
she said. “I liked that they gave
us a challenge to work on.”
The event was organized
like a real business conference, Malcolm said, with a
keynote speaker, break-out
sessions and a networking
lunch.
Thomas Perry, general
manager of the Courtyard by
Marriott Convention Center
in Washington, D.C., was the
keynote speaker, encouraging
the students to make the most
of their time and giving a few
words of advice while sharing
his own story.
“It’s important for you
all to understand you have
to work hard,” he said. “The
person who will have the most
success is the person who
makes the most of the 86,400
seconds in the day.”
He also told the students
that they would only be as
good as the people they spent
their time with and encouraged them to ﬁnd older people
to learn from.
“If you’re 16 years old, you
cannot learn everything about
life from another 16-year-old,”
he said. “If you want to learn
about life, ﬁnd someone ten
years older than you who is
doing what you want to do
and hang out with them.”
Fredy Calderon, a senior
at Northwood High School
in Silver Spring, said he was
impressed by Perry’s talk and
thought it was a great way to
start the conference.
He wants to pursue a career in law. Lawyers get incomplete information and
have to ﬁll in the blanks, he
said,
“I ﬁnd it interesting,” he
said, “That’s what I like to do.”
Wootton High School students
will perform the Broadway musical “Hairspray” at 7:30 p.m. Friday
and Saturday; at 2 p.m. Sunday;
at 7:30 p.m. April 4 and 5; and at 2
p.m. April 6.
The school is at 2100 Wootton
Parkway, Rockville.
More than 150 students, including actors, musicians and crew,
along with a team of teachers and
community members, are involved
in presenting “Hairspray,” set in
Baltimore in the 1960s.
“It’s one of the rare shows
that has a tremendous amount
of featured roles and the music is
just so good,” said director Jessica Speck. “You cannot get away
from how great this music is. It’s
so catchy.”
Tickets, at $10 for general admission and $15 for reserved seating, can be purchased at schooltix.
org/wootton.
For more information, call
301-279-8550.
Nursery school director
celebrates 25 years
Karen Gerton lives in a time
warp of sorts.
As director of B’nai Israel Congregation’s Schilit Nursery School
for the last 25 years, she says that
though she gets older, the kids do
not.
She always works with preschoolers ages 15 months through
5 years.
“The kids are the same. They
come in with smiles and are
happy and love to be here,” Gerton said.
B’nai Israel honored Gerton
with a March 8 celebration attended by more than 350 people
that included entertainment by
comedian Kevin Meaney.
“It was an overwhelming experience,” Gerton said of the celebration. “ My whole life converged.”
Gerton said the biggest
surprise of the evening was the
people who came representing
families from her 25 years at the
school.
She started at the Rockville
nursery school in 1989, teaching
OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS Clarksburg High School
3-year-olds three days a week.
After seven years, the director
retired and she applied for the job
because she said it was something
she wanted to do eventually and
she didn’t know when the opportunity would come up again.
When she took over, there
were 55 children in the program,
all in half-day classes.
Now there are 120 students in
programs ranging from parentchild classes to pre-K classes for
4- and 5-year-olds.
The school, Gerton said, is a
place of community for the students and their parents.
“It’s a community where [parents] meet people and establish
friendships,” she said. “A common
theme is they met friends and
stayed friends. It warms my heart
when people say that.”
After 25 years, Gerton said
she has no plans to retire. The
celebration in her honor is an example of why she stays.
“It was wonderful,” she said,
“It touched my heart. That’s why I
don’t leave. As much as I love being here, they love me too.”
Registration underway
for pre-K, Head Start
Registration has begun for
Montgomery County Public
Schools prekindergarten and
Head Start classes for the 2014-15
school year.
The programs are for incomeeligible children who will be 4
by Sept. 1. They provide services
such as preschool education,
health and social services, and
parent engagement for lowincome families, including those
whose children have disabilities.
Limited Head Start openings
also are available at Montgomery
College’s Rockville campus for
parents receiving Working Parents
Assistance or Purchase of Care
child care subsidies. These classes
are open to children who turn 3
or 4 by Sept. 1. Walk-in applications are accepted from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Thursday
at the Rocking Horse Road Center,
4910 Macon Road, Room 141,
Rockville. Parents also can register
their children at other community
locations.
CLARKSBURG
n Each week, The Gazette will feature a county school by the numbers, giving a glimpse at how local schools are dealing with overcrowded conditions.
Number of students:
1,958
Current
student
capacity:
Percent
over
capacity:
Number of
students
overcapacity:
Number of
school’s portable
classrooms:
1,638 320 19.5 11
338
1995
25.2 26.2 2006
26.7 24.7
(Grades 9-12)
English
PRINCIPAL’S
TAKE
Other
MCPS
average
high school
class size:
Student/
instructional
staff ratio:
13.1
MCPS average high
school student/
instructional staff ratio:
11.6
Year school was built
English
Other
Year of last renovation/modernization
Principal James Koutsos said the school’s 11 portable classrooms have created a larger building footprint. “We have a bit more base to kind of monitor and supervise,” he said. Overall, Koutsos
said, the school has adjusted well to the extra students. Hallways and stairwells can accommodate students, he said, and the added enrollment has not affected extracurricular groups, some of
which have used off-campus sites to meet prior to the student population growth. With more students, Koutsos said, there’s “more diversity, more variety, more opportunity.” An addition to the
school is slated for completion by August 2015, he said.
DATA FOR 2013-14 SCHOOL YEAR SOURCE: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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School’s
average
class size:
Total
MCPS portable
classrooms:
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CELEBRATIONS
HEALTH CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26
Pre-Operative Spine Class,
from 2-3 p.m. at Suburban
Hospital, 8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda. Spine
patients – lower, mid-back and
neck (cervical) – learn about
pre-operative preparation and
post-operative care prior to surgery. Registration required. Free.
www.suburbanhospital.org.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
Kohlenburg
The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of William and Kathryn Kohlenburg extend warm congratulations and
love in celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary.
Married on April 6, 1944, at Grace Methodist Church in Gaithersburg, they have resided in their Gaithersburg home for 68
years and look forward to many more.
Korzeniowska, Nason
Mansoor and Aileen Nason of Olney announce the engagement of their son, Seth Nason, to Ewa Korzeniowska, daughter of
Grazyna and Wieslaw Korzeniowski of Poland.
The prospective groom graduated from John F. Kennedy
High School in 2001 and in 2005 graduated from The United
States Military Academy. Captain Nason is a POW/MIA Rccovery
Team Leader at Joint Base, Pearl Harbor/Hickam in Hawaii.
The bride-to be graduated from Paciﬁc Lutheran University
in Tacoma, Wash., with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She is currently at the Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Nurse Anesthetist program.
A May 2014 wedding in Hawaii is planned.
Eyes Wide Open, from 1-2
p.m. at the Rockville Senior Center, 1150 Carnation Drive, Rockville. Learn about eye diseases
and problems that can occur in
the senior population. Dr. Neal
Adams will describe the signs and
symptoms of common vision
conditions, including cataracts,
glaucoma, dry eye syndrome and
refraction problems that become
more evident as we age. Free.
www.suburbanhospital.org.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28
Safe Sitter, from 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. at the Jane E. Lawton
Community Center, 4301 Willow
Lane, Chevy Chase. Comprehensive training course teaches
11- to 13-year-olds the essentials
of babysitting. Course includes
tactics in handling emergencies
basic ﬁrst aid and child-care
skills. Registration required. If you
are interested in becoming a Safe
Sitter instructor, please call 301896-2999 for more information.
$95. www.suburbanhospital.org.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
The Power of Food for Your
Health, from 1:30-3 p.m. at
Suburban Hospital, 8600 Old
Georgetown Road, Bethesda.
Dr. Eva Hausner and Dr. Mary
DuPont will discuss the power
of whole food nutrition and
healthy lifestyle to prevent
disease and to stay healthy.
There will be a doctors’ Q&A
panel included at the end of the
health seminar. Free registration
at: http://suburbanhospitalmarch29.eventbrite.com/.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
Body Balance Yoga - Beginner at MedStar Montgomery,
10:30-11:30 a.m. Sundays, from
March 30 to May 4 at MedStar
Montgomery Medical Center,
18101 Prince Phillip Drive,
Olney. Yoga is an ancient and
systematic approach to good
health and well-being that helps
to reduce stress, improve concentration and develop strength,
ﬂexibility and balance. $60. For
more information, visit www.
medstarhealth.org.
MONDAY, MARCH 31
Basic First Aid and CPR,
from 6-10 p.m., March 31 to April
1, at Suburban Hospital, Lambert Building (Second Floor),
8600 Old Georgetown Road,
Bethesda. Receive instruction for
Adult CPR, treatment of bleeding, burns, broken bones and
more. For lay people who require
CPR credential documentation.
$85. www.suburbanhospital.org.
RELIGION CALENDAR
UPCOMING
Concord-St. Andrew’s United
Methodist Church, 5910 Golds-
boro Road, Bethesda, will present a special Lenten Sermon
Series to April 13 (Palm Sunday)
based on Adam Hamilton’s
book, “24 Hours That Changed
the World.” Based on the author’s travels in the Holy Land
and other sources, the book
helps readers experience the
ﬁnal day of Jesus’ life and understand it’s signiﬁcance. Sunday
service starts at 10 a.m. www.
csachurch.com.
Littman, Brown
Ellen-Sue and Neal Brown announce the wedding of their
son, Mark Jared Brown of North Laurel, to Heidi Allison Littman
on Oct. 13, 2013, at the Thomas Fogarty Winery in Woodside, Calif. Heidi is the daughter of Wendy and Joel Littman of Sunnyvale,
Calif., and the granddaughter of Gladys and Jacob Angel of Elk
Grove, Calif., and Muriel Littman of Menlo Park, Calif.
The bride is a 2000 graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy
in Michigan. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin and
received a master’s degree in musical performance from the University of Maryland. She is a musician in the Washington area.
The groom graduated from Richard Montgomery High
School in 1999. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland
and holds a master’s degree in information systems from Johns
Hopkins University. He is a manager with Infosnap in Bethesda.
After a honeymoon in Thailand, they reside in Laurel.
The Shiloh Baptist Church
of Landover, 8801 Ardwick
Oakley, Mueller
Michaela Oakley and Michael Mueller were married on Sept.
21, 2013, at Stone Manor in Middletown.
The bride is the daughter of Patty and Terry Oakley of Montgomery Village. The groom is the son of Fred Mueller of Tampa,
Fla., and Robin Harrington of Gaithersburg.
The ceremony and reception were celebrated with close
friends and family followed by a honeymoon in Saint Lucia. The
couple currently resides in Gaithersburg.
Ardmore Road, Landover, will
present the full stage play, “It Is
Finished,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April
18. Admission is free. www.shilohbc.org.
ONGOING
Agape African Methodist
Episcopal Church, 7700 Brink
Road, Gaithersburg, conducts
Sunday morning worship service at 11 a.m. Sunday School is
at 10 a.m. Communion celebration on ﬁrst Sundays, men leading worship on second Sundays,
youth leading worship on third
Sundays. “You’ll Get Through
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This” Bible Study from 7-8 p.m.
Wednesdays. 301-924-8640;
www.agapeamec.org.
Damascus United Methodist
Church, 9700 New Church St.,
Damascus, offers traditional
Sunday morning worship
services at 8:15 a.m., a youth
contemporary worship service
at 9:30 a.m. and a service of
liturgy and the word at 11 a.m.
with Sunday school at 9:30
a.m. for all ages during the
school year. www.damascusumc.org.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church,
7730 Bradley Boulevard,
Bethesda, offers services at 8:30
a.m. and 11 a.m. each Sunday,
with Sunday School for all ages
scheduled at 10 a.m. Child care
is offered from 8:15 a.m. to
12:15 p.m. A fellowship and coffee hour follows the 8:30 a.m.
service. 301-365-5733, www.
elcbethesda.org.
Kemptown United Methodist
Church, 3716 Kemptown Church
Road, Monrovia, conducts a
contemporary service at 8 a.m.
followed by a traditional service
at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings,
with children’s Sunday school
at 9:30 a.m. and adult Sunday
school at 11 a.m. For more information, call 301-253-1768. Visit
www.kemptownumc.org.
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Someone else’s
money
In County Executive
Isiah Leggett’s $4.97 billion
budget proposal for ﬁscal
2015, he offers Montgomery County Public Schools
$1.5 billion in county
money. By Maryland law, a
county must pay its school
system at least the same
amount, per pupil, year to
year — the so-called maintenance of effort law.
The Leggett budget
proposal ends up with $26
million more than state
funding minimums. That
means, if the budget passes,
the county has a new ﬂoor
for school funding. It’s not
just an increase for current
taxpayers, but an increase
that future taxpayers have
to carry as well.
The school system will
argue that it needs that $26
million. In fact, the Montgomery County Board of
Education says it needs $15
million on top of that. But lay
aside the question of need,
and instead focus directly on
the question of policy.
Crafted 30 years ago,
maintenance of effort prevents the state’s 24 jurisdictions from collecting state
education aid, then reshufﬂing those dollars so the
money ends up paying for
some other program.
But all those years ago,
recessions never came with
capital R’s. Though the
economy always has had
stretches of anemic growth,
no one could foresee a bust
in housing, which fuels the
majority of local government revenue.
So, as a matter of running a government, maintenance of effort takes
education out of the discussion when leaders need to
weigh priorities. Granted,
no one can dream of a
time when educating our
children won’t be a major
priority. Then again, no one
could foresee a time when
owning a home wasn’t a
good investment.
On this side of the Great
Recession, maybe Montgomery County should be
more gun-shy in how it
commits its public money.
Sure, Montgomery has
a highly ranked school system. Its teachers are ﬁrst
rate, and the test scores
are better than most. But
Leggett’s budget — presented during an election
year — isn’t just spending
the money of this year’s
taxpayers. He’s spending
future generations’ money.
The ‘House’ shouldn’t
always win
First came the hissy ﬁt,
then the schmooze.
“House of Cards,” the
addictively popular Netﬂix
series about rough-andtumble politics, is playing
bad lobbyist, good lobbyist
in Annapolis these days.
The end game is tax breaks,
aka free money.
After threatening to
abandon Maryland if its
ﬁnancial demands weren’t
met, the series tried a
softer touch, sending its
star, Kevin Spacey, to rub
elbows with politicos in Annapolis on Friday.
“House of Cards” isn’t
the only show or movie produced in Maryland in recent
years, but it has become the
pouting face of the state’s
ﬁlm tax credit fund.
For ﬁscal years 2012
through 2014, the state
could award up to $7.5 million in ﬁlm tax credits each
year. “House of Cards” was
one of the beneﬁciaries.
A state Department of
Business and Economic
Development report says
that to retain “House of
Cards” and “Veep,” another series, the legislature
in 2013 boosted the tax
credit fund to $32.5 million
for three years. Not surprisingly, those credits were
gobbled up.
For its ﬁrst season in
2012, “House of Cards” received a tax credit of $11.7
million, but reportedly
had an economic impact
of more than $138 million,
spending at more than
1,800 Maryland businesses,
not to mention local technicians and actors it hired
(temporarily).
For season 2, “House of
Cards” was approved for
another $15 million.
For season 3 in 2015,
the production qualiﬁed
for $15 million, but was
approved for $4 million, according to DBED.
That’s where it gets ugly.
Early this year, a ﬁlm
production executive wrote
to state leaders demanding more tax-break money.
Otherwise, the company will
“break down our stage, sets
and ofﬁces and set up in another state,” the letter says.
Last week, Spacey
charmed a packed room
of legislators, relatives and
staffers at a private reception
at an Annapolis bar. Pass a
bill with a higher tax credit,
he gently urged them.
MarylandReporter.com
posted a photo album of
giddy pols posing for photos with Spacey.
This is not how economic development should
be — awed legislators who
control the purse strings,
straining for their brush
with a star. It looks and
feels unseemly.
We’re leery of the
potential for puffed-up
economic numbers and
wonder why there’s so
much fawning over jobs
that are here for short
bursts, then go away.
Who is asking: Could
this tax-credit money be
used just as well, or better,
some other way?
Most of all, we’re turned
off by strong-arm politics.
Glitz or not, this is just another business grabbing
what it can.
Don’t give in; let the
“Cards” fall where they
may.
The Gazette
Karen Acton,
President/Publisher
LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Deer problem shows we take care of trees too well
Recently, letters to the editor have appeared in The Gazette about the loss of deer
habitat and blame urban development.
Good habitat includes the following —
clean air, clean water, the right soils for the
right vegetation for food, shelter and protection from predators. In reality, we need
a diversity of growth in our forests because
different animals utilize different forest environments.
Let us focus on one important factor
about our urban deer habitat.
The trees in our federal, state and local parks, state and national forests, the
wooded common areas of urban developments and ﬂood plains have not been cut
for years. The tall trees block the sun from
reaching the forest ﬂoor and the weeds and
invasive species of vegetation thwart this as
well since they choke out new plants.
By preventing ﬁres that eliminate these
weeds and leaf and tree debris that have accumulated on the ground we have actually
neglected the forest habitat because these
ﬁres are necessary to improve the soil and
enable seeds to sprout and grow into new
trees to replace the aging forest.
Forestry experts recommend that 10
percent of a forest needs to be in transition
each year thereby creating a diversity of forest heights. The sad fact about our mature
forest canopy is that we have protected the
trees in our parks and urban forests so well
that they do not provide the right food for
deer and other animals at the level they
can reach nor is the food they need readily
available in the quantities they require to
survive and be healthy.
When food supplies are limited, deer
are forced to leave the wooded areas for
cropland or go to housing developments
and neighborhoods with hedge level food
for them to eat in order to live. However,
this movement puts them in danger of vehicular interaction.
Deer cannot feed on tall trees — they
must have large quantities of saplings and
younger softer limbs and twigs to munch
on. It is essential to have this type of food
available nearby their bedding areas in
the wintertime when snow may restrict
traveling. They need dense stands of low
timber for protection from wind and other
weather. Oak trees yield food and cover but
as they age, oak trees produce fewer acorns
which deer and many other animals utilize
as a primary food source in preparation for
winter. Also, since some oak tree species
produce acorns every other year, and if they
are the only oak trees in that area, there is
limited amounts of food to eat during alternate years which again forces deer to leave
their wooded areas for food.
We need to look carefully at our woodland habitat. Science-based management
of our forests is essential. “Protecting” the
trees by prohibiting any action by man to
is actually detrimental and shortsighted.
Yes, urban growth is going to happen and
needs to be closely monitored but habitat
improvement and careful management in
all our forests is required in order for animals to have a great place to live.
Mark Gochnour, Germantown
Maryland needs to ban fracking
Maryland must ban hydraulic fracking and the exporting of
liqueﬁed gas, standing as a proﬁle in courage, not intimidated
by a rush to export LNG to combat Russia’s recent threats to
stop supplying gas to Ukraine
and Europe.
Several nations including France and Bulgaria have
banned fracking which injects
carcinogens and toxins into
the ground at high pressures.
Fracking has been shown to
contaminate nearby drinking
and ground water. The emissions from gas production,
transport, liquefaction, and
shipping overseas would also
make climate change worse,
while not reducing the cost of
gas here at home.
Fracking supporters argue
that it creates jobs. Maryland
should invest in green jobs that
would stay here in America and
build our renewable energy
resources such solar and wind
power.
Maryland’s temporary moratorium on fracking will expire
soon without immediate action,
even as the State of Maryland
has not ﬁnished its study on the
environmental and health hazards of fracking.
Justin W. Chappell, Silver Spring
The author is a Maryland
House of Delegates candidate
in the Democratic primary for
District 20.
Don’t combine city, presidential elections
Regarding March 19 article “Future of
city election cycle is still uncertain,” the
Rockville City Council may ignore city voters in approving the combining of presidential and city election cycles. On the city’s
November 2014 ballot there was a question
about such a change and it was defeated by
a huge majority of over 10 percent!
For the past 60 years, Rockville has
prided itself for conducting our own elec-
tions without outside interference and with
a focus on city issues. If combined, city
elections would come last on a long ballot
including not only presidential and congresssional candidates but Montgomery
County and school board candidates with
their many referendum questions. And the
election process is mostly controlled by
Montgomery County.
The rationale for combining the cy-
Plowing snow is a boondoggle
On March 3, my wife and I, both
elderly and in marginal health, shoveled out our drive and the street fronting our house, in roughly half an hour.
Most of our neighbors did likewise
and, by midmorning, the street was
fully passable.
Between 8 and 9 that evening, two
snowplows came down our street,
scraping up basically nothing. I have
observed this pattern numerous times
both this year and in previous years,
after light snowfalls. The overpaid individuals who drive these plows apparently recognize a boondoggle when
they see one, readily taking advantage
of the county’s panic attacks whenever there’s more than two clouds in
the sky.
As a taxpayer, I’m offended by the
use of county funds to support these
activities, when they could much more
effectively be used for other purposes,
such as the schools.
I propose that snow plowing is unnecessary on most residential streets,
for snowfalls under a foot. Special provisions could be made for the minority
of residents too old or incapacitated to
shovel themselves out.
Charles Shore, Gaithersburg
cles is to increase the number of potential
voters. Most jurisdictions including Montgomery County have increased voter participation by having an early voting option
and Rockville should do likewise.
The will of Rockville voters should be
respected and the proposal to combine the
two cycles rejected.
Andrew Schotz, Assistant Managing Editor
Nathan Oravec, A&E Editor
Ken Sain, Sports Editor
Dan Gross, Photo Editor
Jessica Loder, Web Editor
Dennis Wilston, Corporate Advertising Director
Doug Baum, Corporate Classiﬁeds Director
Mona Bass, Inside Classiﬁeds Director
Jim Marrinan, Rockville
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The United States should
support Ukraine diplomatically
and through foreign aid. However, Maryland must act now to
permanently ban fracking.
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LETTERS TOT HE EDITOR
Even speed camera supporter says they’re mostly about revenue
I am in agreement with Alan Freeman [“Speed cameras improve safety,”
letters, March 12] when he wrote, “The
one factor that has never been considered in connection with any location is
the potential for a particular location to
generate revenue.”
I, like nearly all Montgomery
County drivers, support the SafeSpeed
program. And I agree with Alan Freeman that the program has reduced
speeding and is a highly efﬁcient way to
enforce our trafﬁc laws. I got one speed
camera ticket ever and it was near
Shady Grove and Rockville Pike.
I do disagree with Mr. Freeman
that cameras are about safety and not
revenue. In my opinion, with cameras
popping up all over the county, I feel
this program is 33 percent to 50 percent
about safety and 50 percent to 67 percent about revenue.
Rice, Leventhal deserve
thanks for their efforts on
school food initiative
In response to the article
“All the broccoli you can eat,
kids” [March 12], we would
like to thank County Council
President Craig Rice and Vice
President George Leventhal for
their support of Real Food for
Kids – Montgomery (RFKM) and
its recommendations to Montgomery County Public Schools
for improving the school food
environment.
This past Friday, March 14,
RFKM launched a communitywide petition asking that its
recommendations be taken into
consideration by Superintendent Starr and the Board of Education. We are gathering support
for the petition and will deliver it
in 60 days.
While MCPS follows USDA
and Maryland state guidelines
with regard to school food, we
believe MCPS can do better. In
its 18-month existence, RFKM
has garnered the support of
1200-plus parents, community
members and health professionals in advocating for fresher,
healthier, more nutrient-rich
foods in MCPS.
We also support the elimination of highly-processed, chemically-laden offerings in both the
school cafeterias and vending
machines.
Another area of concern
to parents is the high level of
sugar in food products offered
by MCPS to its 151,000 students.
With one exception, all juice
products sold in MCPS equal or
exceed calorie and sugar levels
in an equivalent-sized soda.
In our preliminary analysis
of over 200 MCPS food products,
RFKM identiﬁed 39 with added
sugars and 49 with dangerous
chemical additives. While some
schools have salad bars, we
would like to see the number
increase to include all schools,
where feasible.
With the current awareness
of the beneﬁts of a healthy diet
and the purchasing power of
such a large school system, we
believe acceptable alternatives
can replace unhealthy products
without a ﬁnancial burden.
We look forward to seeing
positive changes in the coming
years, and we believe our community will support MCPS and
Montgomery County in this
endeavor. More information
about RFKM and its petition can
be found on our website, www.
realfoodforkidsmontgomery.
org.
Karen Devitt, Silver Spring,
and Lindsey Parsons, Takoma Park
The writers are co-founders
of Real Food For Kids —
Montgomery.
If this SafeSpeed program was truly
only about safety in front of schools and
playgrounds, can Mr. Freeman explain
why these speed cameras are on 24/7?
I ﬁnd it very frustrating to drive by
the nearby high school on a Sunday
afternoon where the speed limit is 25
mph and people are driving a ridiculous 19 mph when there are no school
activities.
I hope the purpose of this program
is not to intimidate people into driving
too slow. Many drivers probably do not
know that you can drive up to 11 miles
over the speed limit before the camera
ﬂashes.
I can understand the frustration of
“out of town” drivers because I have
never seen so many speed cameras
anywhere but in Montgomery County,
Maryland and Washington, D.C.
There should be a realistic discus-
sion on safe speed limits because obviously I-270 or I-495 would have fewer
accidents if they installed speed cameras and lowered the speed limit to 35
mph. While I support our police force
and SafeSpeed, to use a term by Mr.
Freeman, it is “pure poppycock” if he
thinks this SafeSpeed program is only
about safety.
Rec Center debate dates back
I would like to illuminate
the issue of designating the
Wheaton Recreation Center
from a different point of view as
someone who has lived in the
community for over 20 years
and has followed its trajectory
for 17 years.
In 1997 the Recreation Strategic Facility Plan 1997-2010
called for replacing the existing
facility with a larger full service
center to serve the Wheaton/
Kemp Mill communities. As
part of this process our community proposed ideas to renovate the present building. The
county did nothing.
By 2002 the Rec Center
was in dire need of repair. The
county proposed demolishing the building and moving
the Wheaton Rescue Squad
there. Again, we would have
welcomed a renovated and
expanded building. But again,
nothing was done.
Over the last 17 years we
have heard nothing from the
Maryland Historical Trust (who
lobbied to give the building historic designation) or the county
planning board (who sided
with the trust). Over the years
we would have welcomed their
help to upgrade the building.
Again, nothing.
And, over these years plans
for the Wheaton Library (which
sits adjacent to the Rec Center)
and the Rec Center came and
went (to see a full timeline of
this project go to savewhea-
1920374
tonlibrary.com). This delay is a
travesty for our neighborhoods.
Children today are using a
building that is falling apart.
Two years ago the county
approved the budget for the
new joint facility without any
opposition. The Maryland
Historic Trust nor any other
organization or individual ever
brought up the future historic
value of the Wheaton Rec Center.
Now the county has designed plans to integrate the
library and Rec Center properties in a well-planned project that will both upgrade the
facilities to be of good use to
the community and be on par
with other sites throughout the
county. The vast majority of
people have voiced their approval of these plans and resistance to any further delays.
Seventeen years is enough of a
delay.
George French and Marcie Stickle say it’s important to
save older buildings as part of
our heritage. I don’t disagree
with that sentiment. However,
if they and the Historic Trust
felt that way, where have they
been all these years?
The only award this “awardwinning” building received was
for good use of cheap materials. And, we can see now just
how that has worked out. The
building is falling apart and it
will now take $7-$8 million to
���x. That’s money the county
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doesn’t have.
It will also cut the contiguous open space on the properties making it impossible, as
stated by the county’s Recreation Department, to conduct
outside activities as they do in
other county recreation centers. The Recreation Department has stated it will not move
young children to Wheaton Regional Park for those activities.
It will simply not conduct any
after-school outdoor activities nor summer camps in our
community. The community
wants a recreation center on
par with those in other parts of
the county.
Despite French’s and Stickle’s belief that “we can have it
all” — both keep the present
Rec Center and upgrade the facilities — in meetings we have
had with county agencies we
have learned we cannot have
it all. The size of the properties
limits usage.
There won’t be enough
contiguous outdoor space to
conduct the types of activities
the Recreation Department
does elsewhere. The cost is now
too high, both monetarily and
for the residents of the community.
Where was the Historic
Trust when we needed them?
Their interest is too little and
way too late.
Jeff Gates, Wheaton
Neil Keller, Rockville
Library
parking
Has anyone else noticed the parking lot at the
new Gaithersburg library?
There are NO parking spots
reserved for expectant
mothers, NO parking spots
reserved for parents with
small children, NO parking
spots reserved for the elderly,
three parking spots reserved
for handicapped and 10
parking spots reserved right
out front for ... fuel efﬁcient
vehicles.
Whose idea was this?
Rob Greving, Montgomery Village
MY MARYLAND
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column will return
next week.
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PRESSURE
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Rockville High School’s Kathleen McTighe (right)
keeps her eye on the ball on Friday against Richard
Montgomery’s Haley McClelland.
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Rockville
lacrosse on
the verge
NEW SHERWOOD
SOFTBALL COACH
TAKES OVER
Junior-laden girls’ team
close to Rams’ ﬁrst winning
season in larger class
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TOP TEAM, BIG
EXPECTATIONS
BY
ERIC GOLDWEIN
STAFF WRITER
First-year coach Ashley Barber-Strunk has taken over one of the most successful softball programs in recent history this spring.
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
T
here is a long list of reasons
that back up the notion ﬁrstyear Sherwood High School
softball coach Ashley BarberStrunk has stepped into the
most enviable coaching position in Montgomery County.
The 2002 Richard Montgomery graduate — after all — inherited a two-time
defending Class 4A state championship program
on a 42-game winning streak that returns six
starters, including the county’s best pitcher in
Towson University recruit Meggie Dejter.
It is, however, just as easy prove that the
member of Lock Haven University’s 2006 NCAA
Division II national championship team’s undertaking marks the start of a journey few would
dare embark on.
Barber-Strunk has to ﬁll the shoes of a wellrespected 17-year coach who took the Sherwood
program to new heights, putting her in prime position to feel the brunt of any slip in the Warriors’
dominance. While Sherwood’s former junior
varsity coach admitted that concept isn’t lost on
her, any remnants of anxiety are overshadowed
by the excitement that surrounds the opportunity to put her spin on a program ripe with athletes just as passionate about, and dedicated to,
softball as she is.
“[Former coach] Pat [Flanagan] was here for so
long, at this point it’s about establishing my lines,”
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Barber-Strunk said. “I was worried at ﬁrst that [the
team] might be like, ‘Why aren’t we doing things
this way,’ or ‘Why aren’t we doing things that way.’
I feel like I’m doing things the right way.”
She is, according to Dejter.
Given Sherwood’s recent results it’s hard to
imagine the Warriors’ need to change much, but
Barber-Strunk made it perfectly clear on the ﬁrst
day of practice this spring that she would not
settle for a team set on cruise control, that there’s
no room in the Sandy Spring program for complacency, Dejter said. Barber-Strunk’s approach
— she said she implements many of the drills
and conditioning she did in college — is different than the traditional style Sherwood is used
See PRESSURE, Page B-2
Cautious optimisim
After years of losing,
Clarksburg opens season
with big win
n
BY TED BLACK
STAFF WRITER
Even after it opened the season
with a lopsided 19-0 home victory
over Watkins Mill on Saturday afternoon, Clarksburg High School
baseball coach Matthew Derrick and
three of his key players still viewed
the remainder of the season with
cautious optimism.
Clarksburg (1-0) won only one
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game two seasons ago when its top
seniors were only sophomores. Last
season the squad improved to 6-11.
Now, with most of his starters returning, including senior ace Zach
Thompson, catcher Michael Kavounis and opening day pitcher Nick
Infanti, Derrick probably had every
right to view the 2014 season with a
good deal of optimism.
“We still have to take it one game
at a time,” Derrick said. “We have a
lot of tough teams in our league,
especially in our division. We’ll see
how we fare against Gaithersburg,
See OPTIMISM, Page B-2
Kathleen McTighe wasn’t much of a lacrosse
player when she tried out for the Rockville High
School girls’ team in the spring of 2012.
But two years later, the multi-sport athlete
has transformed from an inexperienced junior
varsity freshman into a standout midﬁelder,
rising through the ranks to become a reliable
starter on the up-and-coming Rams.
One of 13 juniors on an upperclassmen-heavy
roster of 18, McTighe is a product of a newly-established Rams Lacrosse Foundation. A threesport varsity athlete — named Rockville girls’
basketball’s top defensive player this past season
— McTighe moved up to varsity early last season
and contributed immediately, particularly on the
See ROCKVILLE, Page B-2
Clarksburg
softball suffers
a bad break
JV coach to ﬁll in for
a year for varsity coach
n
BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
TOM FEDOR/THE GAZETTE
Nick Infanti pitches for Clarksburg High School on Saturday against Watkins Mill.
Jennifer Hoffmann was pleased to still be
in basketball mode in late February and early
March since her Seneca Valley High School
girls’ basketball team was amid its best postseason performance in recent history — the
Screaming Eagles lost to eventual Class 3A state
ﬁnalist Damascus in the 3A West Region semiﬁnals — when a sequence of events made it clear
that would-be fourth-year Clarksburg softball
See CLARKSBURG, Page B-2
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B-CC graduate earns national wrestling respect
n
University of Chicago
freshman earns AllAmerica honors
BY
KENT ZAKOUR
STAFF WRITER
For most of Charlie Banaszak’s tenure at BethesdaChevy Chase High School,
wrestling in college was an
afterthought. He opted to focus on his grades and getting
into the best school possible.
But by the time he developed
into a Maryland state champion last year, the 19-year-old
grappler made the sport a signiﬁcant part of the application
process.
It was likely the correct decision.
On March 15, the 2013
B-CC graduate and current
University of Chicago freshman placed fourth in the
141-pound weight class, earning All-America honors, at the
NCAA Division III wrestling
national championships.
“I really started to enjoy
wrestling,” said Banaszak, a
2013 All-Gazette ﬁrst team selection who ﬁnished his high
school tenure 142-30 with a
4A/3A state and 4A/3A West
Region championship and
two county titles. “... Chicago
ended up being the perfect ﬁt
for me academically and wrestling.”
Banaszak, who led the
Maroon with a 29-12 record
this winter, steadily improved
throughout his ﬁrst collegiate
season and that notion can
clearly be seen in his results.
Banaszak wrestled Elmhurst
College’s Matt Quigley three
times during the season and
PHOTO FROM UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ATHLETICS
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School graduate Charlie Banaszak earned AllAmerican honors by placing fourth at the NCAA Division III national wrestling
tournament as a freshman at the University of Chicago.
in each successive bout, Banaszak’s performance become
more dominant. On Nov. 9, he
won 8-7. On Nov. 23, he won
4-0 and on Jan. 18, he won by a
14-1 major decision.
He went on to ﬁnish third
at the NCAA Midwest Regional
to make the national tournament as an unseeded qualiﬁer
where he upset several ranked
wrestlers before eventually
losing, 8-6, to Brandon Jones
(New York University) in the
third-place match.
“I started out and my goal
was just to make the starting
lineup,” said Banaszak, an
economics major. “That happened and then my next goal
was to win the next match. ... I
reassessed and made it a long
term goal to qualify for nationals.”
Banaszak, whose strength
is riding an opponent, said his
biggest improvements in college have come from the neutral position and his mental
conﬁdence. He plans to take
a few months off from training before resuming wrestling
activities at the end of the
semester. Over the summer,
Banaszak expects to attend
a few camps and said he has
been invited to work out with
the American University team.
“He’s probably one of the
most mentally positive athletes I’ve ever coached,” said
Chicago coach Leo Kocher,
who added he was sold on
Banaszak’s talent when he saw
him place eighth at 138 pounds
and earn National High School
Coaches Association Junior
All-American honors during a
high school tournament in Virginia Beach, Va. “... Sometimes
freshmen fade at the end of the
season, but Charlie got stronger.”
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Top spot in county gymnastics up for grabs
Two-time defending
county champion B-CC
graduated all-around
champion
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BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN
STAFF WRITER
Gymnastics is a pretty particular sport with a speciﬁc skill
set, not necessarily the most inviting for high school-aged newcomers, Walt Whitman High
School gymnastics coach Sarah
Jimenez said. That’s why it was
such a treat when current senior
captain Sarah Dar walked in to
the ﬁrst day of practice three
years ago.
Dar represents a group of
student-athletes — the non-
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to, but Dejter said the change
has helped to keep the Warriors
on their toes.
They might actually need to
be on guard defensively more so
this season than in recent years.
Despite returning the majority
of its high-scoring lineup, Sherwood did lose two of its most
powerful hitters. While the Warriors are still more than capable
of producing runs, the scor-
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defensive end, Rockville coach
Caitlin Ulmer said.
“Her speed is a huge asset
for us and she’s actually one of
our more defensive-minded
midfielders,” Ulmer said. “...
She’s got a little bit of that basketball shufﬂe.”
Rockville’s progression, like
McTighe’s, hasn’t happened
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Quince Orchard, Northwest and
some of the other teams that
have handled us the last two
years. It was a good way to start
the season. We got a win and I
was able to get everyone into the
game.”
Thompson is expected to
retain his status as the ace of
the Coyotes’ pitching staff this
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coach Danielle Murray was not
going to be able to give the defending Class 4A West Region
ﬁnalist Coyotes her undivided
attention.
Or much attention at all.
“Danielle just had a baby
and she was supposed to come
back and then her husband
ended up breaking his arm,”
Hoffmann said. “It got to the
point where [Murray] was like,
‘I don’t know if I’m going to be
able to do this.’”
That final decision was
made about a week before the
start of softball season and
Hoffmann, who had been heading up Clarksburg’s junior varsity program since the school
opened in 2006, could easily
club gymnasts that act as a
supporting cast to the more experienced competitors — that
might be the biggest differentiating factor in this year’s results.
There are only eight varsity programs in Montgomery
County and that number ﬂuctuates from year to year — there
needs to be at least six teams
to avoid being cut as a varsity
program. One of the main challenges, aside from the cost of
equipment, which Jimenez said
can be around $20,000, is attracting enough athletes.
In dual meets, teams are allowed to enter seven athletes
per event, that number drops to
six at the season-ending county
championship. The top 5 ﬁnishers count in each event score.
“You really need at least 15
to 20 kids to be interested to
have a program,” Jimenez said.
“Gymnastics is an intimidating sport, a lot of girls feel like if
they haven’t done it before as a
kid that they won’t be successful.”
The county’s high school
gymnastics scene, which is
judged at a Level 8 difficulty
standard, is largely comprised
of former competitive gymnasts — coaches agreed it’s a
good platform for athletes who
no longer train 30 hours a week
to use their skill sets — mixed in
with a select few current highlevel gymnasts and some less
experienced athletes to help ﬁll
in the depth charts.
For the ﬁrst time in a long
time, the two-time defending
county champion and win-
Early signs point to 2013
runner-up Walter Johnson and
Whitman, which ﬁnished third
at counties a year ago, to compete for the top spot this spring.
The Wildcats did lose two high
scorers, including Grace Leslau,
who was the all-around runnerup, but coach Ursula Bright
said she is pleased with the variety of experience among her
gymnasts. The Wildcats feature
a good blend of experience —
nine of 19 athletes on the roster
It’d be hard to imagine
B-CC falling completely out
of contention but the Barons
did graduate most of their big
scorers, including last year’s allaround county champion, Julia
Konner. But this spring does
mark the start of a new era with
ing differential might not be as
much as it has been, Dejter said.
Sherwood did win its 43rd consecutive game with Saturday’s
12-0 season-opening victory
against Thomas S. Wootton.
“I think [the changes are]
good because we don’t want to
get too comfortable and overconﬁdent with what we have, it’s
good to get a new view point,”
Dejter said. “[Barber-Strunk]
did just play in college a couple
years ago and won a national
championship so she has so
much she’s able to teach us. It’s
good because she does kind of
knock us down a level. She really
does push us. She’s been where
we are and even better.”
A catcher turned outﬁelder,
Barber-Strunk brought in her
cousin, former Our Lady of Good
Counsel ace pitcher Kim Bartlett,
who primarily played third base
at Methodist University, as an
assistant coach. Between the
two, they provide expertise in all
areas of the diamond.
Student-athletes can be deﬁant in the face of change, but
Barber-Strunk’s credibility and
experience makes it difﬁcult for
the Warriors not to trust in everything she does, Dejter said. Perhaps even more important, the
right-handed hurler added, is the
open channel of coach-athlete
communication Barber-Strunk
encourages. Her youth also helps
her relatability, Dejter said.
“If you’re skeptical all you
have to do is talk to her and she
explains it fully,” Dejter said.
“She doesn’t try to hide anything, she knows exactly what
she’s talking about. She explains
everything and how it’s going to
help us, I think it’s really good to
have that openness.”
Barber-Strunk said her love
for softball grew with the unity
of her college team and that
is a very important aspect of
the game she aims to convey
at Sherwood. The team has already come together in support
of her efforts early, she and Dejter agreed. It’s no secret that all
eyes are on Barber-Strunk and
the substantially sized shoes she
has to ﬁll. But the Warriors have
rallied around someone who
has already earned their respect.
“I think in the beginning she
was a lot more nervous than now
and especially the returning players, we deﬁnitely stepped in and
were like, ‘OK, whatever you need
from us, we’re here, we’re your
team and we want to support you
fully,’” Dejter said. “It really made
this a team thing. She’s got such
a passion for the game which everyone can see and it puts it on
us, we want to impress her and
we want to make her feel good
about what she’s doing.”
overnight. The team went 8-4
against a lighter 2A/1A schedule
in 2011, Ulmer’s ﬁrst year coaching, but upgraded to a more
challenging 3A/2A schedule and
subsequently dropped to 3-10
in 2012, according to LaxPower.
com. Rockville doubled its win
total to improve to 6-7 last season, and with another year of
experience, things are looking
up, McTighe said.
“I think that we can get more
wins than we did last year and
that we can be one of the top
teams in our division,” McTighe
said. “... A lot of us already know
how each other play so we can
pick things up more easily ...
there’s a lot more chemistry just
because we’ve played together
so long.”
Senior Hope Basile, who led
Rockville with 42 goals last season, said that more underclassmen have expressed interest in
recent seasons, helping contribute to the improvement. Partici-
pation has increased with the
varsity and junior varsity teams
ﬁlling up each of the last four
seasons, Ulmer said.
“We’ve really been building up the program and getting
more and more people interested in playing lacrosse in general,” Basile said.
Anna Damone, a 2011 Rockville alumna, said there was a
culture shift when Ulmer took
over in 2011.
“Ithinksenioryearwejusthad
a lot more enthusiasm and more
of a team family atmosphere,” Damone said. “... She brought us all
together and made us compete. I
think that’s something that really
wasn’t done before.”
While Basile has been playing lacrosse since about fourth
grade and starting on varsity
since she was a freshman, many
of her teammates, such as McTighe, lack that experience.
Their growth, along with the
continued development of the
underclassmen on the junior
varsity team, could be essential
in establishing a winning culture
at Rockville.
“They’ve really been able to
get a hang of all the foundations
of lacrosse,” said Basile, who
has recorded 63 goals in her ﬁrst
three seasons. “They’ve been
able to really play well and learn
the game and have been able to
succeed in the sport.”
spring, but Saturday afternoon
he played ﬁrst base and batted
third in the order. Infanti, the
squad’s No. 2 pitcher, shut out
the Wolverines on two hits and
struck out ﬁve in ﬁve innings.
Kavounis caught and batted
ﬁfth.
“When you have a good defense behind you, you just go
out and throw strikes,” said Infanti, who threw strikes on 43 of
61 pitches on Saturday. “You always like the defensive help and
the run support. I think we’re
going into this season with a
lot of conﬁdence. For me, the
best game for us will be against
Gaithersburg. They’re always
among the best teams in our
league and in the state. When
we play them, we’ll know where
we are.”
Kavounis had another team
in mind — Northwest. Two
years removed from a squad
that won only one game and often suffered setbacks via the 10-
run mercy rule, Kavounis was
quick to downplay the Coyotes
potential rise to prominence.
“A couple of years ago, we
were on the other side in games
[like Saturday],” Kavounis said.
“It’s tough to walk out onto the
ﬁeld when you’re down 10-0 after one inning. I think last year
we gained our conﬁdence and
that carried over into this spring.
We know we can compete in this
league. But for me, when we face
Northwest, a team with a lot of
guys that I know, that’s when
we’ll know how good we are.”
Thompson will likely get the
ball from Derrick when the Coyotes face Northwest, Gaithersburg and Quince Orchard this
spring,
For Thompson, who plans to
attend Alderson-Broaddus this
fall, the game against Quince
Orchard is the one he is looking
forward to the most.
“We play a lot of good teams
again,” Thompson said. “I think
we get all of the top teams except we don’t play Sherwood.
But that game against Quince
Orchard is going to tell us what
we have. I think our goals are to
win the region and get to states.
Two years ago we lost almost every game, but last year we came
together and then over the summer we stayed close together
knowing this was the last chance
for us seniors to get to states.”
have declined the offer to take
over the program for a year. But
that would have left Clarksburg
in a lurch.
Before last season, the Coyotes haven’t appeared in a region ﬁnal since it was a Class 3A
program in 2010.
Despite the hectic schedule
that was sure to ensue — and it
was exacerbated by the inconsistent practice times thanks
to a long patch of inclement
weather — Hoffmann said she
could not turn her back on the
forward progress this relatively
new Clarksburg program has
made in establishing itself in the
county’s upper echelon. Former
varsity softball coach and the
school’s football coach Larry
Hurd also stepped in last-minute to coach junior varsity.
“Stability is important, I
didn’t want to just plop varsity
in someone’s lap, so I decided to
take it over for this year,” Hoffmann said. “We have a strong
softball program here and one
thing I did not want was for
things to change so much where
all of a sudden it does start to affect the players.”
The players, junior left
ﬁelder Tia Mitchell and senior
center ﬁelder Laurie Kostecka
agreed, were happy to see a familiar face on the ﬁrst day of
tryouts March 1. In the name of
building a true program, Murray and Hoffman often ran joint
practices, Kostecka said, so the
Coyotes avoided the transitional
period that inevitably accompanies any new coaching situation
and remain in good position
to build on last year’s breakout
performance.
“I think bringing in someone
new [to coach] would’ve thrown
us off for a while, this doesn’t
feel like much of a change,” said
Kostecka, a University of Tampa
recruit. “I think Coach Hoffmann is amazing for doing this,
it really is a sign of how much
she cares about our program. ...
“Last year really set us up for
this season because everyone
is so determined. Last year we
ﬁnally made it to the ﬁnal and
almost won and we plan on winning this year.”
The Coyotes certainly have
the means necessary. While
they did graduate ace pitcher
Jennifer Taffe, who struck out
154 batters, her younger sister,
sophomore Emily, and classmate Ashleigh Bisset, who hit a
two-run home run in last year’s
region ﬁnal loss to Northwest,
are more than capable of holding their own in the pitcher’s
circle, Hoffmann said. The rest
of Clarksburg’s defense remains
in tact, likely even stronger.
The arrival of freshman
shortstop Allie Janowiak, who
Hoffman said possesses the type
of softball instincts that can’t be
taught, enabled former two-year
shortstop Mitchell, a University
of Virginia recruit, to move back
to her natural position in the
outfield. The ground she and
Kostecka will be able to cover
should provide perhaps one of
the county’s best ﬁnal lines of
defense.
The two also lead an offense
that had no trouble scoring runs
a year ago — Mitchell batted
.593 with 22 runs batted in and
34 runs scored and Kosctecka
(.500) sent 30 runs across the
plate while scoring 25 of her
own. Communication, Mitchell said, should also be a team
strength now that most of the
team has played together for
at least one or two years and it
helps that all four captains —
Mitchell, Kostecka, catcher Rachel Brenowitz and right ﬁelder
Joanne Cardera — are in some
of the most communicative positions. Players’ ability to talk on
the ﬁeld is vital to teams’ success, especially under the stress
of postseason play, Hoffmann
said.
“I think we can deﬁnitely at
least attain what we did last year
and even go further than that,”
she said. “Especially now that
there’s not some new person
screaming from the sidelines
telling them what to do. ... I still
communicate with Danielle, it’s
not like she just dropped off the
face of the earth, she is still involved.”
ner five of the last six years,
Bethesda-Chevy Chase, might
not enter the season as a favorite, though coaches agreed the
Barons should never be overlooked.
Favorites
are seniors — and youth.
Whitman’s solid base was
strengthened by the arrival
of some talented freshmen,
Jimenez said. It’s important to
have at six solid competitors in
every event and though not every Viking excels in each event
— bars, ﬂoor, beam, vault — the
team does boast the numbers
and variety to produce effective
lineups.
Contender
many new faces, including ﬁrstyear coach Dotti Garlington,
who replaced former 13-year
leader Dana Creager.
Darkhorses
Only 6.6 points separated
the fourth- through sixth-place
teams at last year’s county
championships, which were
Montgomery Blair, Sherwood
and Springbrook, respectively.
James H. Blake was only six
points out of sixth place. While
it will likely be difﬁcult for any
of these programs to break into
the top two this spring, the rest
of the slots look to be up for
grabs.
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No offseason for Ripken League
ICE HOCKEY
College wood bat
summer league requires a
full-time commitment
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Player of the Year
BY
KENT ZAKOUR
STAFF WRITER
BILL RYAN/THE GAZETTE
Landon School senior Jack Barton is The Gazette’s Player of the Year in ice hockey.
First Team
Jack
Barton
Austin
Schoenfeld
Sean
O’Brien
Cole
Taylor
Kyle
Hooper
Jack
Olson
Not only the
best defenseman in IAC, but
also showed offensive skills.
Stellar two-way
player was key
cog in Patriots’
title run.
Senior netminder was
solid all season
for the IAC
champs.
Hard working
player led Little
Hoyas in
scoring.
Led Stags in
goals (20), assists (18) and
points (38).
Solid two-way
player has both
size and speed.
Landon
Senior
Defender
Wootton
Senior
Defender
Coach of the Year
Dave Evans
Wootton
In his 20th season at the helm
he led the Patriots to a perfect
league mark,
a 16-1 record
overall and the
team’s third
Maryland Student Hockey League
Championship.
Landon
Senior
Goalie
Geo. Prep
Senior
Forward
Second Team
Jordy Bretner, Wootton, senior,
defense
Ross Allen, Churchill, junior, forward
Kevin Mackey, DeMatha, senior,
goalie
Ryan Holman, Georgetown Prep,
senior, forward
Brandon Hall, Wootton, senior,
forward
Lizar Zamurovic, Georgetown
Prep, junior, defense
DeMatha
Senior
Forward
Geo. Prep
Junior
Forward
Honorable Mention
Luke Klecker, Wootton, junior,
defense
Junmo Kim, Churchill, senior,
forward
Jones Lindner, Landon, junior,
forward
John Mulera, Georgetown Prep,
junior, defense
Adam Kaplan, Wootton, junior,
defense
Colton Rupp, Landon, junior,
forward
Landon reloads, Prep looks to defend
Golf preview: Hoyas won
2013 IAC title, but Bears
have a top freshman class
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BY
TRAVIS MEWHIRTER
STAFF WRITER
It took Morgan Egloff roughly
half a second to correct himself.
“This year we have four freshmen,” the Landon School golfer
said before pausing. “Well, four
really good freshmen.”
Possibly, even, the best quartet of rookies in Landon history.
Coach Jack Duquette takes his
team on an annual trip to Alabama — where they are scheduled to be through Saturday — to
play 36 holes a day for four days.
It’s not uncommon for him to
bring along a few promising seventh or eighth graders who can
step back to the varsity tees and
not get soundly defeated by the
older, more experienced players.
What is uncommon, however, is, on this very same trip a
year ago, then-eighth grader Jeff
Samit carding a 6-under 66, Evan
Katz a 4-under 68, Cole Gibson
a 2-under 70 and John Kalavritinos an even-par 72. Even more
startling, these scores came on
a famed Robert Trent Jones-designed course called The Senator, a popular venue on the LPGA
Tour.
“There’s a lot of good players
out there,” said Landon senior
Brent Bubes, an All-IAC selection as a junior. “But, yeah, they
all played really, really well. I deﬁ-
Brent Bubes
Nick Rolle
nitely remember that day.”
That day portends a promising season for the Bears, who
were mired by depth issues last
year, when Georgetown Prep
won the conference title. Landon
lacked a consistent ﬁve and six
golfers in its lineup — teams start
six and keep five scores — in
2013; with the addition of the four
freshmen, the only depth issue is
narrowing the starting lineup to
six.
“This year could be one of
our best years,” Duquette said.
“We have some veterans who
are really strong but we have a
nucleus of four freshmen who are
very good ... we have a very good
stable of golfers.”
Of course, so does their rival,
Georgetown Prep. The defending
IAC champions return all six of
their starters from last year, including four-year starter Brendan
Peel. Also coming back for the
title defense are seniors Jon Carr,
Nick Rolle and Carter Connelly,
and sophomores Mike Jones and
Davis Lamb.
“I’ve had six people leave on
me,” Georgetown Prep coach
Robert Barry said. “But I’ve never
had a situation where it was all
six coming back. These guys, very
clearly — they’re the starters. I’ve
never really had too much experience with this kind of lineup.”
Barry recognized that his IAC
and Metros champion team will
be the one with the target on its
back, and that all schools will
be itching to knock off the Little
Hoyas.
“Those six guys, I tell them,
‘We’re only as good a team as
our four, ﬁve, and six guys play,’”
the coach said. “Last year, when
we won Metros, we had ﬁve guys
shoot in the 70s. When we won
the IAC, we had ﬁve guys in the
70s. In this format, it’s not the one
horse you need, it’s the depth.”
Both Landon and Georgetown Prep have plenty of that, so
much so that both have voiced
bittersweet complaints over that
very blessing. Duquette could
have a different starting combination every match. Barry said his
biggest issue is who to pair with
whom, ﬁnding the right balance
of which players complement
each others’ games the best. Regardless, these petty “problems,”
have set up a top-heavy IAC.
“[Landon] always has a good
team,” Barry said. “But they’ve
picked up a few kids and of course
they have the war horses back
so they’re going to be a team to
reckon with and I think that that’s
the great thing about this rivalry
in that we’re going to go head-tohead and the winner is going to
come out the IAC champs.”
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KEEPING IT BRIEF
Bethesda resident reaches milestone
RM volleyball sweeps Watkins Mill
Bethesda resident Garrett Brahms ﬁnished his
junior wrestling season at st. John’s Catholic High
School, with a 43-12 mark and has won more than
100 matches his career. Brahms, who competes at
132 pounds, ﬁnished second in the Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference Championships, losing to Good Counsel’s Kevin Budock in the ﬁnals.
The Richard Montgomery High School boys’
volleyball team opened the season with a 25-4,
25-19, 25-8 sweep over Watkins Mill on Friday.
The Rockets returned ﬁve starters from last year’s
squad that reached the county championship
match.
— TED BLACK
There is no such thing as
an offseason for baseball connoisseur Jeff Rabberman as
the coach of the Gaithersburg
Giants.
“It’s absolutely a 12-month,
365-day job,” said Rabberman,
who guided the Cal Ripken
Collegiate Baseball League
franchise to a successful inaugural season last summer. He is
also the coach at Gaithersburg
High School during the spring.
“There’s not a day that goes by
I’m not doing something for
the Giants.”
In 2013, the Giants entered
the CRCBL, a hyper-competitive amateur summer wooden
bat league founded in 2005
comprised of 12 franchises in
the Baltimore-Washington,
D.C., metropolitan region.
And through the years, as the
league has expanded, the time
commitment has not only increased on the field, but off
the ﬁeld as well for all of the
league’s representatives, including Montgomery County’s
four teams (Gaithersburg, Silver Spring-Takoma Park Thunderbolts, Bethesda Big Train
and Rockville Express).
Rabberman and representatives from Silver Spring and
the Big Train all agreed that
running their organization extends to much more than just
the annual schedule of games
from late May to early August.
They all compared it to running a college program or minor league afﬁliate, complete
with annual winter league
meetings. Planning a budget,
interviewing potential interns,
improving stadium and ﬁeld
amenities, lining up host families, hiring play-by-play and
public address announcers and
increasing community involvement are just a few of the tasks
at hand for each franchise.
“For [Big Train President
and General Manager] Adam
Dantus now and me back in
the day, it never stopped,” said
Bethesda co-founder Bruce
Adams, who has admittedly
become less involved in the
organization’s day-to-day operations over the past couple
of years. “As soon as the sum-
FILE PHOTO
Flagler College student-athlete Jake Taylor is expected to return to play for
the Silver Spring-Takoma Park Thunderbolts this summer.
mer youth camps and season
are over, we are working on our
annual fundraising, ordering
uniforms and equipment and
setting up offseason events for
fans. Now, especially with the
Web and social media, it’s a
completely non-stop process.”
But recruiting college players and developing relationships is the most important
key to success. Teams said
they have their roster set for
the most part by the late fall or
early winter.
“Recruiting players for the
next summer’s team is a huge
part,” said Thunderbolts Vice
President Joe Gerbasi, whose
organization is entering its 15th
year of operation. “It takes a lot
of dedicated work and research
to ﬁnd, target and develop relationships with college programs and players.
“We are always looking to
increase the number of Division I players on our roster, but
at the same time, we are always
looking for Division II, III and
junior college players flying
under the radar. We want to
have a big league dream with a
small-town charm.”
Added Adams: “Sal Colangelo, our manager, he literally
goes from championship series game to vacation and dials
recruits on the phone. There
can’t be any gap in downtime
because if you aren’t recruiting
early and often, you won’t get
the best players.”
Rabberman, who traveled
to the University of Texas last
month to visit three of his summer players, said he is amazed
at how far-reaching the CRCBL
has become. In fact, he said he
received a random email from
a potential play-by-play radio
guy from Washington state.
“A couple of parents have
asked me, ‘Do you want to
coach in college?’ and I just
laughed because I don’t coach
at a university, but it is like we
— I’m sure the other teams will
agree — all do. It is as much
work and we keep getting more
and more involved and rewarded. I have the Trojans and
the Giants. I get the college kids
during the summer and high
school kids in the spring.”
kzakour@gazette.net
MOVIE REVIEW
&
A ‘DIVERGENT’
DISAPPOINTMENT
The Gazette’s Guide to
A ‘Hunger Games’-like franchise falls
well short of that standard.
Arts & Entertainment
Page B-6
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MAKE
SURE TO
BY
WILL C. FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITER
|
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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BRING IT
‘BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL’ HIGHLIGHTS FRIENDSHIP, DANCING, AND STUNTS
COURTESY STRATHMORE
“Bring It On: The Musical,” is
set to jump out at audiences
on Saturday at the Music
Center at Strathmore.
“B
ring It On,” a film starring
Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku
and Gabrielle Union, hit box
ofﬁce gold in 2000. It shouldn’t
have been a surprise then
when the studio decided to pump out four
direct-to-video sequels — “Bring It On Again,”
“Bring it On: All or Nothing,” “Bring It On: In It
to Win It,” and “Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.”
Although the sequels didn’t garner the
fame, recognition or money of the original ﬁlm,
the Broadway version of “Bring It On” lived up
to the hype.
The National Tour of “Bring It On: The Musical” is set to somersault into the Music Center
at Strathmore for two shows on Saturday .
According to Zuri Washington, who plays
Danielle in the show, fans expecting to see a
musical based on the ﬁrst movie will be a little
surprised.
“It’s actually based more on the third ‘Bring
It On,’ movie, which most people may not have
seen,” Washington said. “It has a very similar
plot in terms of kind of an urban, ethnic team
versus a waspy, Beverly Hills kind of 90210
team.”
The story starts off with Campbell Davis,
who is totally excited about being the cheer
captain her senior year. She gets the job, only to
ﬁnd out that, because of redistricting, she has to
go to another school — and the school doesn’t
even have a cheer squad!
Campbell talks Danielle into helping her
create a group of cheerleaders so they can
Award-winning singer/songwriter Christopher Cross will be
playing new hits and old standards when he performs at
the Birchmere on Sunday.
COURTESY CHRISTOPHER CROSS
See BRING, Page B-6
BRING IT ON:
THE MUSICAL
n When: 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Saturday
n Where: The Music Center
at Strathmore, 5301
Tuckerman Lane, North
Bethesda
n Tickets: $39-$81
n For information: 301-5815100; strathmore.org
Cross winds
n
“Sailing” songwriter has history in Bethesda
BY
WILL C. FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITER
Back in the 1980s, you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing a song by Christopher Cross. The award-winning
singer/songwriter is responsible for such tunes as “Think of
Laura,” “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” “Ride Like
the Wind,” and “Never Be The Same.”
Cross made Grammy history in 1981, winning Record of
the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best New Artist
and Best Arrangement for “Sailing.” To date, no one has ever
won all of those awards in the same year except Cross. Add to
that an Academy Award for Best Song for “Arthur’s Theme,”
from the Dudley Moore ﬁlm, “Arthur,” and Cross was a force
to be reckoned with in the early ’80s.
The singer/songwriter will be making a stop at the
See CROSS, Page B-6
CHRISTOPHER
CROSS
n When: 7:30 p.m.
Sunday
n Where: The
Birchmere Music
Hall, 3701 Mount
Vernon Ave.,
Alexandria, Va.
n Tickets: $39.50
n For information:
703-549-7500;
birchmere.com
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IN THE ARTS
AT THE MOVIES
DANCES
Carpe Diem Contra Dance, April
10, Nor’Easter from New England,
Will Mentor, caller, 7-7:30 p.m.
contradance workshops, 7:30-10
p.m. Contras & Squares, second
Thursdays, Great Hall, Silver Spring
Civics Center, One Veterans Plaza,
Silver Spring, $10 for general admission, $8 for members, $5 for students
and those without income, www.
carpediemarts.org.
Candlelight Waltzes Dance
Club, April 6, Tea Dance, Ballroom
and Latin music by 2Hot2Handle,
semi-formal, couples only, 4-7
p.m., Columbia Country Club,
7900 Connecticut Ave, Chevy
Chase, $25 per person, $15 for students, reservations by April 4, call
Peter at 202-362-7851.
Hollywood Ballroom, March 26,
“step of the evening” Cha-cha at
8:15 p.m., Social Ballroom Dance
at 8:30 p.m.; March 27, April 3, Tea
Dance from 12:30-3:30 p.m. ($6);
March 28, drop-in lessons from
7:30-9 p.m., West Coast Swing
Dancing with Dance Jam Productions at 9 p.m. ($15); March 30,
free Samba lesson at 7 p.m., Social
Ballroom Dance at 8 p.m. ($16);
April 2, “step of the evening” Night
Club Two Step at 8:15 p.m., Social
Ballroom Dance at 8:30 p.m., 2126
Industrial Highway, Silver Spring,
301-326-1181, www.hollywoodballroomdc.com
PHOTO BY JAAP BUITENDIJK
(From left) Shailene Woodley and Theo James star in “Divergent.”
Young Adult adaptation up to old tricks
A ‘Hunger Games’-like
franchise falls well short
of that standard
n
BY
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In Veronica Roth’s young
adult trilogy of best-selling futuristic hellholes, being a “divergent” means you avoid easy
categorization and defy the
crushing dictates of your overseers.
The movie version of “Divergent” is no divergent. It goes
along to get along. It’s tame,
formulaic and strictly by the
book in every sense.
Certainly you can do worse
in this genre. The recent screen
adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s “The Host” was a lot worse.
But you can do better, courtesy of “The Hunger Games,”
to which “Divergent” bears
a more-than-passing resemblance.
The time is a century plus
change from now, after a devastating world war. The place:
a desiccated and user-hostile
Chicago, where there are no
music festivals or charming
storefront theaters of any kind.
The city sits beside a dried-up
Lake Michigan. The crumbling
CROSS
Continued from Page B-4
Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandra, Va., on Sunday.
For Cross, the event in Alexandria is a bit of a homecoming. Cross’ father served as a
pediatrician at the Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, where he was a
physician for President Dwight
Eisenhower’s grandchildren.
“We were pretty fortunate
because we had one of the few
houses actually on the base,”
Cross said. “We had a big ol’
house with cherry trees and everything. I think the two houses
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skyscrapers are dotted with
wind turbines.
The government divides
the populace into ﬁve factions
based on an individual’s primary virtue. Either you’re a
Dauntless, an Abnegation, an
Erudite, an Amity or a Candor.
If you’re a Divergent, you’re
none or all of these, and therefore an enemy of the state. If
you’re “Divergent,” the movie,
you’re a blandly well-crafted
adaptation of a YA success
story, lacking a sense of personal identity or visual magic.
Director Neil Burger made
the diverting “Limitless” and
“The Illusionist,” among other
ﬁlms. In “Limitless” he asserted
his ability to propel a story; in
“The Illusionist” he fashioned
a convincing period picture on
a low budget. He was a pretty
good bet for the “Divergent”
trilogy, the first installment
adapted from Roth’s book by
Evan Daugherty and Vanessa
Taylor.
But the project cannot
shake its aura of overfamiliarity.
As in “The Hunger Games,” we
have a hardy, underestimated
young heroine, this one called
Beatrice “Tris” Prior, played by
Shailene Woodley. We have another one of those nasty public
competitions or “choosing
ceremonies,” determining the
on base were ours and the commanding general’s. Everyone
else kind of lived off base.”
Cross said the family moved
to Bethesda after spending time
in Japan, where his dad was
stationed. The family ended up
living in the area for ﬁve years,
according to Cross.
“It was a wonderful time
in my life, I was just young. …
The town was much more open
then. We used to run around
free on our bikes. … It was a fun
place to be in that time of life.”
Cross gets his love of music naturally. His father played
bass in college and also spent
time playing for acclaimed
bandleader Lawrence Welk.
“I think music was kind of a
release for him,” Cross said. “I
just saw the joy in his face and
the happiness that it brought
him and I related music to that.
I wanted to be a part of whatever that was. I was in ﬁfth or
sixth grade and I asked for some
drums.”
Later on, after listening to
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compete at Nationals. Zaniness
— and heartfelt friendship —
ensues.
Eean Cochran is one of the
production’s swing actors —
meaning on any given night, he
could be playing different characters based on what’s required.
If an actor needs a night off, Cochran can ﬁll in, along with the
other swing actors.
“It’s kind of fun, but it’s a
little stressful as well,” Cochran
DIVERGENT
n 2 stars
n PG-13; 143 minutes
n Cast: Shailene Woodley,
Theo James, Kate Winslet,
Tony Goldwyn
n Directed by Neil Burger
characters’ futures, in this instance their lifelong faction.
Tris must undergo terrifying drug-induced tests of will,
as her subconscious dream
state brings to life all her worst
fears (rabid dogs, unsuccessful
franchise launches) in realistic
detail. Keeping a sharp, cold
eye on her progress is the totalitarian matriarch played by
Kate Winslet, whose talent so
far outstrips her material, her
scenes become mini training
videos in how to enliven the
most conventional material
imaginable. Her character exists so that Woodley’s character
can assert her self-empowerment. “All of my life I’ve lived
by your rules,” Tris hisses at
one point, echoing the inner
thoughts of adolescents the
world over. “Not anymore.”
There are revelations regarding what’s up with the
choosing ceremony, who’s in-
volved with the simmering revolution, and how the male lead,
played by Theo James, will look
without a shirt. In a recent interview Woodley told MTV News:
“We didn’t want it to feel like,
oh, attractive male lead taking
his shirt off in a young adult
franchise.” Yes, well. Good try.
All the same, James is the best
thing in “Divergent.” Imagine
the pain and suffering this ﬁlm
might’ve inﬂicted with Taylor
Lautner of “Twilight” in the
male-lust-object role, and you
especially appreciate James’
wry, offhanded charisma.
At one point Tris zip-lines
down from atop the John Hancock Center. This scene is fun.
Berger manages one lovely and
surprising image: that of a hallucinating Tris ﬂoating in a reclining medical exam chair in
an open ﬁeld. The generic bulk
of “Divergent” hits its marks
and moves on. Woodley — excellent in “The Descendants”
and “The Spectacular Now,”
where she played the bitchiest
and the nicest young women
on the planet, respectively —
has the stuff it takes to anchor
one of these dystopian jobbies. Here’s hoping the second
movie, scheduled to be released
a year from now, rebels against
the establishment in more ways
than one.
Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Blues, Capital Blues: Thurs-
days, 8:15 p.m. beginner lesson,
9-11:30 p.m. dancing to DJs, Glen
Echo Park’s Spanish Ballroom Annex, $8, www.capitalblues.org.
Contra, March 28, Nils Fredland and Figment, 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8:30 p.m. dance, Glen Echo
Park Spanish Ballroom, $10, www.
fridaynightdance.org.
Contra & Square, March 30,
Nils Fredland and Figment; April
6, Mary Wesley and Sassafras
Stomp, 7:30 p.m., Glen Echo Park
Spanish Ballroom, $12 for general,
$9 for members, $5 for students,
www.fsgw.org.
English Country, March 26, Bob
Farrall; April 2, Liz Donaldson, 8
p.m., Glen Echo Town Hall (upstairs), www.fsgw.org.
Swing, April 12, Radio King Orchestra, lesson at 8 p.m., dancing
at 9 p.m., Glen Echo Park Spanish
Ballroom, $15, www.ﬂyingfeet.org.
Waltz, March 30, Figments, 2:453:30 p.m. lesson, 3:30-6 p.m., dance,
$10, www.waltztimedances.org.
MUSIC & DANCE
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper
Club, Linda Oh “Initial Here” Quar-
tet, 7:30 p.m. March 26; Nick Moss,
7:30 p.m. March 27; Arlen Roth &
The Cordobas featuring Lexie Roth,
8 p.m. March 28; Roberto Pomili
Tango Concert, 8:30 p.m. March
29; Ralph Stanley & The Clinch
Mountain Boys, 7:30 p.m. March
30, call for prices, 7719 Wisconsin
Ave., Bethesda. 240-330-4500, www.
bethesdabluesjazz.com.
BlackRock Center for the Arts,
Ballet Hispanico masterclass,
11:30 a.m. March 29; Ballet Hispanico, 8 p.m. March 29, 3 p.m.
March 30; Tiempo Libre, 8 p.m.
April 5, 12901 Town Commons
Drive, Germantown. 301-528-
2260, www.blackrockcenter.org.
Institute of Musical Traditions — Rockville, Sean Tyrrell,
7:30 p.m. April 8, Saint Mark
Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old
Georgetown Road, Rockville, call
for prices, www.imtfolk.org.
Strathmore, Afternoon Tea, 1
p.m. March 26; AIR: Brad Kolodner, banjo, 7:30 p.m. March 26;
BSO: Stayin’ Alive — One Night
of the Beegees, 8 p.m. March 27;
History of Jazz Part I: When Africa
Met Europe On the Plantation, 11
a.m. March 28; Lily Tomlin, 8 p.m.
March 28; Nils Frahm with Douglas
Dare, 9 p.m. March 28; “Bring It On:
The Musical,” 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
March 29; Peter Minkler, viola &
Jeremy Gill, piano, 3 p.m. March
30; Parker Quartet, 7:30 p.m. March
31, call for venue, Locations: Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North
Bethesda; Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North
Bethesda, 301-581-5100, www.
strathmore.org.
ON STAGE
Adventure Theatre, “The Jungle
Book,” April 4 to May 25, call for
prices, times, Adventure Theatre
MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen
Echo, 301-634-2270, www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org.
Arts Barn, “Great American
Trailer Park Musical,” April 4-20,
311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. www.r-m-t.org, www.gaithersburgmd.gov.
Imagination Stage, “Cinderella:
The Remix:” April 9 to May 25,
call for prices, times, Imagination
Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda,
www.imaginationstage.org.
Olney Theatre Center, “I and
You,” extended to March 30; “Once
On This Island,” April 9 to May 4,
call for prices, times, 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney, 301-9243400, www.olneytheatre.org.
The Puppet Co., “Hansel and
Gretel,” March 27 to April 27; Tiny
Tots @ 10, select Wednesdays,
Saturdays and Sundays, call for
shows and show times, Puppet Co.
Playhouse, Glen Echo Park’s North
Arcade Building, 7300 MacArthur
Blvd., $5, 301-634-5380, www.
thepuppetco.org.
Round House Theatre,
Bethesda, “Two Trains Running,”
April 2-27, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. 240-644-1100,
www.roundhousetheatre.org.
Round House Theatre, Silver
Spring, “Snow Angel,” April 4-12, call
for show times, 8641 Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, $15 for general admission, $10 for subscribers, patrons 30
and younger and seniors, 244-6441100, www.roundhousetheatre.org.
Silver Spring Stage, “Other Desert Cities,” April 4-27, Woodmoor
Shopping Center, 10145 Colesville
Road, Silver Spring, see website for
show times, www.ssstage.org.
The Writer’s Center, Christopher
Bakken and Derrick Weston Brown,
2 p.m. April 6, 4508 Walsh Street,
Bethesda, 301-654-8664, writer.org.
VISUAL ART
Gallery B, “Ideal Form,” to
March 29; Group Exhibition, April
2-26, gallery hours are noon to 6
p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E.
www.bethesda.org.
his father’s album collection,
Cross went to the record store
and asked if they had anything
that sounded like his dad’s music, only for a younger crowd.
“They gave me ‘Time in
Outer Space,’ by Dave Brubeck,” Cross said. “That was my
ﬁrst exposure to having my own
album and music and I loved it.
… I switched to guitar at 16 because I wanted to write down
songs. It was always a singular
passion. … It’s always been my
solace through failed marriages
or whatever I had going in life.”
Cross’ debut album, aptly
called “Christopher Cross,”
came out in 1979 and has gone
platinum five times over, according to the RIAA. That record
had four top-20 singles, including “Sailing,” which hit No. 1
and “Ride Like the Wind,” which
topped out at No. 2.
Although Cross said he knew
his songs were quality work, he
was a little surprised at how
quickly success came to him.
“I aspired to great artists like
Joni Mitchell and people like
that, so I was trying to emulate
what they were doing as far as
the craft goes,” Cross said. “I was
just hoping to get the album out
and then after the third album
have a single to hit the radio. I
never really imagined having
that early success.
“I think disco and punk had
sort of run their course. People
were sort of ready to hear pop
again and I was just in the right
place at the right time.”
Cross has released 13 studio
albums, including two Christmas records. Last year, he released “A Night in Paris,” a live
album recorded and ﬁlmed entirely in one night at the Theatre
Le Trianon in Paris.
“It’s lovely to play at Le Trianon in Paris,” Cross said. “It’s
such an historic venue. The
show sold out and it was a pretty
special evening. We only got to
tape one night, which is hard
because, with live records, you
usually want to record multiple
nights and choose performances
and things like that. But the band
played incredibly well and I think
it came out really, really well.”
Cross hasn’t had quite the
success he enjoyed early on in
his career, but he still sells out
shows around the world. As an
artist, Cross said he’s never frustrated with fans when they say
they love his older work as opposed to something new. What’s
frustrating, he said, is the lack of
exposure the songs are getting.
“It’s very difficult and it’s
not the fans’ fault, it’s just the
problem with terrestrial radio,”
Cross said. “A lot of times, the
more artistic work kind of slips
through the cracks. So as the
songs got more sophisticated
and the lyrics got more sophisticated, it just wasn’t what radio
was embracing. Britney Spears
came in and I just didn’t ﬁt the
mold anymore.”
Cross is one to keep himself
busy. Shortly after his show at
Birchmere, Cross will be hopping a plane for some tour dates
in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. He
also just ﬁnished recording a new
album, “Secret Ladder,” which he
hopes will be out around June 15.
Since his divorce in 2007,
Cross said he’s been writing
constantly.
“We just have a lot of material,” Cross said. “Just ﬁnished
‘Secret Ladder,’ and I’m very,
very happy with it. … It’s just a
very strong record.”
For fans who come out to
see Cross perform, he hopes
they enjoy the music and ﬁnd
a better understanding of his
work.
“The songs usually have a
little bit deeper meaning and in
some cases personal meaning,”
Cross said. “Some of these songs
are slightly autobiographical. I
hope somehow in the concert
they get to know me a little bit
and … leave feeling like they
know me a little better.
“It’s the story of my life. It’s
just a book I keep adding pages
to.”
said. “... Some of the swings get to
watch the show ... so you can ﬁnd
things you can do different than
the person you’re covering. It’s a
lot of fun once you get on stage.”
Most of the actors in the
show participated in a cheerleading “camp” before the run
of the show to get their bearings
and to learn some of the proper
techniques.
“The cheer camp was kind
of another audition process,”
Cochran said. “We just worked
on small cheer stunts. I guess
just going back to the basics for
people who had never cheered
before. … Then we moved on to
the more advanced stunts to see
who could do [tosses].”
Washington, whose character utilizes more of a dance
style, did not participate in the
camp, but still spent the majority of her time working on choreography.
“I’m not being tossed, nor
am I tossing people in the air,”
Washington said. “We had a very
short period of rehearsal time for
this show. So it was really hard to
get everyone to do everything. …
It was, like, three weeks to learn
everything — choreography, music, stunts and cheerleading. It
was really overwhelming to do all
of that in a short period of time.”
Washington and Cochran
agree the hard work has paid off.
Packed houses are getting to see
the amount of time and energy
put into this show and are entertained at the same time. They
both, however, hope audiences
take a little something with them
when they go.
“I think people will take
away a sense of pride in being
who they are no matter who or
what people perceive them as,”
Washington said.
“I think it deﬁnitely has a
message of friendship and relationships,” Cochran added.
“When people watch the show,
they get amused by the cheerleading and the fun dances and
stuff, but I think it’s very important to understand the relationships [Campbell] is building and
ﬁnds and the people she surrounds herself with.”
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• Minutes away from I-270, Metro, and MARC Train
301-528-4400
301-948-8898
340 N. Summit Ave. • Gaithersburg, MD
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ROCKVILLE
SILVER SPRING
Park Terrace Apartments
Advertise Your
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community here!
Great Location: 1& 2 BR
apartments available
immediately, wall–wall
carpeting, balconies/patios,
free parking , newly remodeled
kitchens and on-site laundry
facilities. Located close to
Rockville town Centre and
Rockville Metro station and
other public transportation.
Please call 301-424-1248 for
more information
Contact Ashby Rice
TH, 3br 2.5ba wlk/out
bsmt, New Kitchen
W/D. $1800 + Elec.
301-512-4529
SILVER
SPRING:
SFH, 3Br, 2Ba, fin
bsmt, CAC, nr Metro,
bus/school, $1700 +
SD/util 301-252-4399
GERMAN:
GP2386
3Br,
1.5Ba, HOC welcome,
ceramic tile floors, nr
270 & shops, nice
area 410-800-5005
Huge Open Water Views, Multiple
Docksites, over 188ft. of shoreline & boat
to Atlantic Ocean! Was $300K
Now $29,900 - Must Go - 336-790-9517
LAND BARGAIN.
(301) 460-1647
GERM: Lrg 2 Br, 2 Ba,
laundry
rm,
near
270/Middle Brook Rd
$1300/mo
240-3057913 or 301-455-8440
FRED: 4 bd/3.5 bath
TH finished bsmnt,
fenced yard, Sect 8 ok
$1700 10 mins from
FCC 3016310588
GERMAN:
Like
New! 1Br + 1FB, W/D,
FP.
1st Flr, Patio,
$1100
per
month
Owner/Agent
Call:
Russ 301-370-6005
GE RMA NT OWN :
3BD 2BA TH. Near
355,
270,
shops.
W/D. Avail now. Hoc
ok. 240-383-1000
MONTGOMERY
VILLAGE:E legant
DAMASCUS: 3BR
$1400/ 2BR $1150
+util NS/NP, W/D New
Carpet, Paint, Deck &
Patio, 301-250-8385
Public Water State Rd
Frontage 8.16 AC $37,215 Prime hardwood setting with prisDAMASCUS : TH,
tine mountain & valley
newly renov, 3 Br,
views. Ready to build,
2.5Ba,
fin
basmt,
camp or relax. This
deck, NS/NP, $1450 +
parcel has everything
util , 301-916-1196
you need: utilities,
PUBLIC WATER, general warranty deed, all GAITH/AMBERFLD
Lux 3lvl EU/TH, Gar,
mineral rights convey,
2MBR, 2.5BA, LR DR,
new perc & easy access. Close to charm- FR, FP,EIK, Deck
$1800. 301-792-9538
ing countryr town like
Mayberry! Terrific
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4Br 3Ba, 3lvl TH,
TOWNHOUSE
down. CALL OWNER
Spacious, W/O Bsmt,
FOR RENT: G a i - 1-800-888-1262, 7
Deck, W/D nr Mid Cty
thersburg:
3
bed- days.
& I370. $1700 + utils
rooms, 3.5 bathrooms.
Call: 240-780-1770
Huge kitchen and
deck. Large living to advertise
GAITHERSBURG:
room and dining room.
call
TH, 3Br, 2Ba, 2 Half,
Huge basement with
301.670.7100
new carpet, finished
den. Close to pubor email
bsmt,deck,,W/D, HOC
lic
transportation.
class@gazette.net
ok. $1900 Call: .202Close
to
grocery
257-0184.
stores. 240-683-6782
4Br/3.5Ba TH wo bsmt
$2450+SD HOC/Sect
8 Welc. 301-785-3888
MONT
VILLAGE:
TH, 3Br, 2.5Ba, 2 lvl,
$1599/per mo + util nr
270, NS/NP Please
Call: 301-613-4721
ROCK: 3BR, 3.5BA
N.POTOMAC
ROCKVILLE: 1 BR
Apt. $1150 incl util,
CATV, Free Parking
Avail now.
NS/NP
CALL: 301-424-9205
POTOMAC/ROCK: Lg
1st flr Apt, 2BR, 1BA,
office, full kitchen, patio, W/D $1600 util inc
Call: 240-505-6131
SILVER SPRING :
Dwntwn Flower Ave.
Unfurn 2br 1ba Apt.
HOC Welcome $1250
202-246-1977
ted 4BD/2.5BA,FR/FP,
Lg Kitchen, patio, car
port, sited on 1/3 acre.
$2350 Owner/Agent
301-924-5536
S.S: Newly renovated
1bd/ 1ba condo 55+
leisure world comm.
$1200/m + sec dep.
April. 1st 2407936188
OCEAN CITY,
MARYLAND
Best selection of
affordable rentals.
Full/partial weeks. Call
for FREE brochure.
Open daily. Holiday
Real Estate. 1-800638-2102. Online
reservations:
ADELPHI: 2 Br 1BA www.holidayoc.com
large condo. $1295 uti
inc + SD & Move
In ORL/DISNEY: 3mi frm
Fees, Front
Desk. Disney 5br/4fba furn
Ref req. 240-418-5693 home daily/wkly slps
12/Pool www.floridasu
GAITH: 2br/2ba fully nshine.com/quintero.
renovated condo avai htm or Quintemar2
now $1550 uti incl. @gmail.com
avantishroff@com
cast.net 917-544-6744
TH, Remod, pool., fin
GAITHERBURG Lg
bsmt, nr Metro HOC
2Br/2Ba +Den in Villa
welcome $2k/month
Ridge,
new Kit nr
Francis 301-570-0510
metro $1750 utilc incl
HOC OK 2409949993
ROCKVILLE- SFH
4brd
2.5
bath G E R M A N T O W N
living/dining & family 3bd 2.5 ba 2 lvl condo
new carpet, freshly
room, $2100 credit
paint upgd windows
check(301)294-8555
$1600 240-426-7852
ROCKVL: Just pain-
GREAT LOCATION!
Updated 2BR condo
for rent $1500 For
info: 301-333-0479
GE RMA NT OWN :
Lge 2Br 2Ba, W/D,
p o o l , exercise
rm
storage, Avl 04/01
$1350/mo,
Please
Call: 301-972-2493
BETHESDA: 1BD in
2BD Apt. Near Medical Center Metro. Near
270/95. $650 util incl.
Female. 240-669-4115
BOWIE: Furn/Unfurn
rm in SFH, $550/mo
utils incl Free Cable.
It’s Available now!
Call: 301-509-3050
GAITH: 2 BR. 1 for
$500 and 1 for $450.
utils incl. NS, NP. Sec
Dep Req. 301-2162482
3004 Bel Pre Rd., Apt. 204,
Silver Spring, MD 20906
GAITH: 2 Rooms in GERM: 1 BD with priTH: both shr Ba $600 vate BA in SFH. All
each
plus
shared util incl. internet. $750
Nice location.
240utliities Please call:
308-1739
240-305-6331
GAITHERSBURG:
GERMANTOWN
1BD in Apartment.
Share Bath & Kitchen.
$530 + util. Wifi avail.
240-406-6694
Mature Male, Furn
BRs. Util not incl. Near
61 Bus Line. Maria
301-916-8158
GAITHERSBURG:
GERM: Bsmt Br, pvt
Lrg Br $425 + util
shared
bathroom/kit
NS/NP Avail Now
Male 240-271-6776
GAITHERSBURG:
Lrg room w/priv BA &
Entr. Close to shops,
bus & metro. $700 incl
utils & int. N/P, N/S.
Se habla espanol.
Please email Christian
cvalie1@comcast.net
GAITHERSBURG:
Male, 1 Br $299 &
1 master BR w BA
$399. Nr Metro/Shops
NP/NS. Avail Now.
Call 301-219-1066
GAITHERSBURG:
Rm For Rent, Prvt Ent/
Kit/Ba. $490 utils incld,
Ns/Np,
Convenient
Loc. 301-254-8784
GAITH/LAYTNSVL
: Lrg Rm in SFH, full
privlgs all amenities,
pool ,beautiful country
setting, NS. $600 301482-1425
GAITH:M BRs $435+
440+475+555+ Maid
Ns/Np, nr 270/370/Bus
shops, quiet, conv.Sec
Dep 301-983-3210
kFull Size W/D
in every unit
kSwimming Pool
ROCKVILLE: Fem,
SILVER
SPRING:
1Bd apt, in SFH, priv
entr & bath, full kit,
W/D, w/closet, NS/NP,
$850 util inc, avl
03/15, 301-309-3744
White Oak area, Male,
1Br w/priv Ba, $730
util inc + $365 SD Avl
03/16 240-543-0141
SILVER SPRING: 1
furnished BD in basement in SFH. Priv ent.
$450 incl util. MALE
ONLY. 240-676-0621
TAKOMA
PARK:
Rooms for rent $665
each, WIFI, util incl. All
furn! Near metro. 240421-6689
entr/ba/frig $750/mo
nr bus, shops & 270,
NS/NP 240-406-2133
& 240-565-7584
GERM: Male 1Br in
TH
Share bath &
kitchen $450 ut inc Nr
MARC/Buses,
Ref’s
Req. 240-370-2301
MV: Bsmt for rent in
TH, New carpt/paint
priv ba, catv, int.,
no kitchen. $500
utils incl. Female
only. 301-466-4118
NORTH BETHESDA: room to rent near
White Flint metro,
Smoking OK, $600
mo. including utilities
Call: 240-223-7640
ROCK: 2BD in bsmt
w/priv entr. Shared kit
& bath. Near public
transpt. Start $550 inc.
utils. 240-462-4226
ROCKVILLE: 1Br
share bath in SFH.
Male $550 utils cable
incl. Near Metro/ Bus
NS/NP 240-483-9184
ROCKVILLE:
GAITH/MUDDY
BRANCH: M/F only
for LG lwr Lvl suite
w/ba,Fam RM w/FP
NSTH $720 + utils
avail Mar.3016747928
1Br
w/o bsmnt suite w/full
bath & kitchenette, independent
access,
quiet
neighborhood
n/s, n/p no cooking.
$850 catv util incl avail
05/01. 301-523-8841
GBURG:
ROCKVILLE: 5BD,
Female
tenant for 1 BD shared
BA. Near 270/355.
$500 everything incl
Parking 240-418-8785
kFamily Room
G560364
GAITH: Nr Rio/Metro
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kSmall Pets Welcome
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Park Terrace Apartments
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Rockville MD 20850
301-424-1248
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VILLAGE:
Townhouse to share
w/-Furnished
Room
Looking for a someone to share my townhouse with a single
persons only. Rent includes all utilities, internet, cable TV, and
off street parking Your
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is
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Private
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Three Story Luxury
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Kitchen
with Ceramic Tile,
Cen-ter Island, and
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Deck
that
Opens
to
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Room with large Flat
Panel TV, surround
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has
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with a Tub and a Full
Sized Clothes Washer
and included in your
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Bed
and
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Night Stand, Small
Couch,
and
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Room
d e s c r i p t i o n : 1 2 ’x 1 7 ’
Bright Room with 2
double hung
windows
in
a
5’-4"x4’8" opening Patio Sliding Door 6’0"x6’-8" Opens to
grassy
patio
backing to common
area Powder Room
5 ’- 3 " x 4 ’- 1 1 " C l o s e t
4’-0"Access
to
Addition-al
Closet
Space
Immediately Outside of
Room. Gas Fireplace
Broadband
Internet
and Utilities Included.
Private Entrance Off
Street
Parking
One
Car
Garage Available to
Rent Full Size Washer
and Dryer. Call: 410571-9139
LOST
FOR SALE:
2002
John Deere 5420
with loader and bucket,
Asking
$9400,
more
pics
at
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OR
443-292-2471.
PARROT:
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African Grey Parrot,
grey with red tail,
about
12
inches
long lost in Lanham
New Carrollton vicinity
offi of Annapolis Rd.
May fly a mile or even
much further. Very
friendly, name is Ari.
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or Regina 404 7130900.
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Request for Expression of Interest
Parking Structure & Roadway Improvements
The MSA is soliciting Expression of Interest (EOI) from qualified
firms to provide design-build and contracting services to construct a
new 800 - 850 space parking structure and to complete select
roadway construction at the North Bethesda Conference Center in
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Friday April 18, 2014.
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AT&T intends to file an application to install
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equipment at located at 21600 West Offutt
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is publishing this notice in accordance with
Federal regulation 37CFR1.1301 et seq,
the National Environmental Policy Act and
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation 36 CFR 800. The project referenced as
"Club Hollow" will consist of the construction of a 156-foot tall monopole with a 6foot tall lighting rod. A total of 12 panel antennas, with a tip height of 154 feet, are
proposed. Remote radio heads (RRHs) will
be mounted next to the panel antennas.
Proposed fiber and DC cables will be
mounted inside the proposed monopole. In
addition, a proposed mesa Telco cabinet,
diesel generator and a shelter generator on
a 11-foot-5-inchx 20-foot concrete pad will
be placed next to the monopole on ground
level. Parties interested in submitting comments or questions regarding any potential
effects of the proposed facility on Historic
Properties may do so in writing by contacting Carolyn Mitchell, AT&T, at 7150 Standard Drive, Hanover, Maryland 21076 or c/o
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WSSC ADOPTS AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO RESOLUTION NO.
2010-1876, WHICH DELEGATED CERTAIN AUTHORITY TO
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The National Institutes of Health will hold a public meeting, starting at 6:00 p.m. on April 8, 2014 located at Little Falls Library,
5501 Massachusetts Avenue Bethesda, MD 20816. The purpose
of the meeting is to solicit public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the National Institutes of
Health Bethesda Campus Master Plan. Comments provided during the meeting, as well as those received during the public comment period will be considered in the Final EIS. This public meeting will be within the 60-day public comment period initiated with
the publication of a Notice of Availability of the Draft EIS published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2014. The 60-day comment period begins on March 21, 2014 and will end on May 23,
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Environmental Protection, National Institutes of Health, Building
13, Room 2S11, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 or
emailed to nihnepa@mail.nih.gov. Questions regarding the meeting can be directed to Mark Radtke, Environmental Protection
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The National Children’s Study, sponsored by the
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utility field crews. Outdoor physical work,
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The District Court of Maryland for Montgomery
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attorneys with case information. For full details
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Comprint Military Publications publishes 8
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customers and work well under weekly deadlines
and pressures of meeting sales goals. Great for
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LANDSCAPING CREW LEAD
Responsibilities include fine grading for lawn installation (using Bobcat or Grading Tractor), installing and
laying sod, driving of dump truck (non CDL) You will
lead a 3-4 man crew, Experience preferred.
LABORERS
Large Gaithersburg HVAC
Service Co. is looking for a fulltime dispatcher. Dispatch
experience, great customer
service along w/great phone
skills. Hourly wage with great
benefits. Email resume to
dispatcher.jobs@aol.com
Healthcare
NOW HIRING CNAS
Call Rafiq at: 301-922-0615
19120 Muncaster Rd,
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Needed for busy doctors office in Rockvllie.
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Irwin Stone
Hiring
CMA needed with cardiology
experience for our
Rockville/Germantown area.
Must have strong skills.
Fax or Email resume to
301-947-2811 or
resumestowork1@gmail.com
Merry Maids
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
This is a great career opportunity for the right
individual.
Looking for 1 Full Time, Mon-Fri.
8 am-5 pm. 30-40 hrs per week
($330-$440 p/wk) House Maid to
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some English & be legal to work
in U.S. Leave message
301-706-5550.
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CLEANING
Opening for a qualified console operator on a state
of the art Mitsubishi Diamond Star double wide
press. Applicants must be able to work any shift
and overtime often throughout the year. Must
know how to set and register color as well as align
pages. Knowledge of digital operating systems is a
recommended but not required.
HOUSE CLEANING
Johnson Hydro Seeding Corp., established for over 40
years in Rockville. To apply call 301-340-0805
or tami@johnsonhydroseeing.com
Earn $350-$500/wk. M-F or
Tues-Sat. No nights.
Must have own car & valid.
Drivers lic. Se Habla Espanol.
Console Operator
Residential Treatment Center for severely
emotionally disturbed children & adolescents.
Seeking team oriented, focused individual to
help us meet our mission of quality care. State
of MD benefits, supportive atmosphere. Must
be available full-time for day/evening and some
weekend shifts. Educational Requirements:
completion of 60 hours college credits w/at
least 18 mental health credit hrs with 6 in
psych. Entry level salary approx $32 K. Send
resume to : JLG- RICA, Personnel, 15000
Broschart Road, Rockville, MD 20850; Fax:
301.251-6815; or e-mail to:
demetra.swarr@maryland.gov EEO
Responsible for assisting in the laying and installation
of sod, straw hand spreading and raking for small rock
removal.
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Residential Counselor
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WE’RE HIRING
WEEKEND CNAS,
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Email
operations@visitingangelsmd.com
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Local company in Gaithersburg is looking for an
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reliable individual for F/T position 9am-5pm M-F.
Duties include: Answering phones, A/P entry,
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data entry. Must be able to Multi task.
$10$15/hr plus benefits
If you meet the above requirements and are
interested in applying for the position please Email your resume to Sara@hvacprecision.com
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Experienced office manager
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Must have references. Salary is
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Send resume by email to
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fax 301-530-2606
On Call Supervisor
Great job for students, retirees and
stay at home moms. Work from
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from 5pm to 9am two evenings twice
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Manager
Experience required.
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Please e-mail resume to
Resumes@centurydist.com
OPTICAL FINISHING
Optical Company in Silver
Spring needs an experienced
person for our fast finishing
dept,. Knowledge
of
a
lensometer and/or edger a
plus! Only dependable people
need apply.
Hours of
operation Mon-Fri 9am-6pm.
We are accepting applications
Mon-Fri 10am-4pm at 2401
Linden Lane, Silver Spring
MD 20910 301-585-9060
Teachers & Substitutes
Child Care Teachers and substitutes needed for
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Roll Prep
Operator
Comprint Printing, a division of
Post Community Media, LLC, is
seeking a dynamic individual for
a roll prep operator (tender) for
a Mitsubishi Diamondstar double
wide press. Applicant must be
able to operate a forklift with paper clamp attachment. Some
computer and mechanical knowledge preferred. Must be able to
work any shift and overtime
when required.
Burtonsville, MD location is looking for friendly
& energetic associates to join our team!
On-Site Career Fair will be held
Tuesday, April 8 from 2pm -6pm
Roy Rogers is Hiring Full Time & Part Time Positions & Assistant Restaurant
Managers at our Burtonsville, MD location!
Join our hospitality team of friendly guest service associates:
• College Tuition Reimbursement • Flexible Scheduling
• Discounted Meals • Driver’s Education Reimbursement
• Opportunities for advancement
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We offer a competitive salary
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Please email or fax resume to:
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301-670-7138. EOE
Please Apply in Person
15662 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD 20866
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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NEW HIRE TRAINING STARTS SOON
TCS is looking for Shuttle Bus Drivers at Dulles Airport.
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current DOT physical card and 3 years of passenger
driving experience required.
Must pass pre-employment drug screen
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Salary $13.75/hour • Full-Time positions • 24 Hour Operation
Must be able to work all shifts
Contact Sehon Ross from 10AM to 3PM at
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THE CONVENTION STORE
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With ISP/OSP experience for N.VA/MD area.
Good pay and benefits!
Fax resume to: 301-599-5890
OPERATOR IV
The City of Frederick is currently seeking: FT Operator IV Wastewater Treatment Plant (POS-35-14) $16.7412 $21.0873 per hour. depending upon experience. Wastewater
treatment experience preferred. MD Class 5A Wastewater
Treatment Operator’s license preferred. For additional
information visit our website @ www.cityoffrederick.com.
Physical & drug test required for all positions. E.O.E.
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Roy Rogers
Burtonsville, MD location is looking for friendly & energetic associates to join our team! On-site Career
Fair will be held Tuesday, April 8 from 2pm-6pm.
Roy Rogers is hiring full time and part time positions
Kenwood Country Club
& assistant restaurant managers at our Burtonsville,
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Join our hospitality team of friendly guest service asContact Chef Martin
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We have great benefits to offer:
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Part-Time
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Local
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Montgomery County Department of Transportation seeks individuals
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depending upon work assignment, and are based on seniority. Interested
applicants need to be able to read and write, have three years of driving
experience, at least one year of direct customer service, 21 years of age,
possess a valid driver’s license, and no more then 1 point on their driving
record (equivalency will be applied to non Maryland residents).
Experience driving a transit bus is a plus. Resumes must be submitted
online by April 12, 2014.
To view entire job announcement and apply online, visit
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application process, please bring an electronic version of your resume
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DIRECT CARE ASSISTANTS
FT/PT- Overnight Shift ~ working with emotionally disturbed
adolescents in residential setting. Shift schedule 10:45 p.m. 7:15 a.m. High school graduate w/experience preferred and
current CNA Certification from MD Board of Nursing required to
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and life insurance, free parking. Salary $14 p/hr. plus shift
differential. Apply in person between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m
March 26 - April 4, 2014, M - F at JLG-RICA, Admin. Reception,
15000 Broschart Road, Rockville, MD at intersection of
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11,480
$
2010 Lincoln Town Car
#422037C,
71k Miles
16,980
$
2009 Chevrolet Silverado LTZ Crew Cab
#327217C,
63k Miles
$
23,980
1999 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4.............................$8,480 2011 Lexus ES350.....................................................$23,980
#N0295A, 118k Miles
#P8876, 39k Miles
#G0002, 47k Miles
#P8828, Entertainment System, 47k Miles
#426010A, 58k
#P8827, Navigation, 32k Miles
#422055A, 90k Miles
#422036A, 37k Miles
2006 Ford Fusion SE............................................$9,980 2010 Volvo XC-90.........................................................$23,980
2007 Volvo S60................................................................$11,980 2011 Volvo XC-90..................................................$30,980
2011 Volvo XC-60.........................................................$19,980 2012 Volvo XC-60 R-Design Platinum..........$32,980
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2002 Volvo V70
11 Nissan Versa 1.8S
$$
#464060A, 6 Speed
Manual, 30k Miles,
Black, 1-Owner
11,200
13 Kia Rio LX
$$
14,400
#453017A, Auto, 2K
Miles, 1-Owner
2006 Lexus IS 250
13 Toyota Corolla LE
#R1781, 4 Speed
$
Auto, 1-Owner, $
15,990
12K Miles
5,980
$
#422051B,
121K Miles
12 Scion TC
$$
16,490
14FordFocusSE
$$
#472144A,
Auto, 4k Miles,
1-Owner
16,700
1-Owner
18,900
13 Toyota Camry LE
$$
#R1753, 1-Owner,
12K Miles,
6 Speed Auto
19,990
2007 Volvo S60
18,900
10,980
#N0294,
89k Miles
w/Navigation
$
#426010A,
58k Miles
13 Toyota Camry SE
$$
20,900
2006 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer
#372287B, Sport Utility, 5 Speed, Black
12ToyotaSiennaLEMiniVan
#472179A, 6 Speed $
Auto, 1-Owner, $
28K Miles
22,500
$12,795
$12,795
$14,900
2013 Toyota Corolla LE........ $14,900
#E0322, Classic Silver, 1-Owner, 33K Miles
$15,499
2012 Nissan Sentra 2.......... $15,499
#P8858A, CVT Trans, 13k Miles, Bright Silver
2011 Toyota Camry LE......... $16,990
$16,990
#472230A, 1-Owner. 26K Miles, 6 Speed,Aloe Green
$17,495
2011 Chevrolet Traverse LS. . $17,495
#363442A, 6 SpeedAuto, 1 Owner, Sport Utility, Blue Metallic
2011 Ford Ranger XL.......... $17,900
$17,900
#467057B, 1-Owner, 30K Miles, Ext Cab, Oxford White
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#E0296,
34K Miles
15,480
#422037C,
71k Miles
13,480
$
2010 Lincoln Town Car
13 Ford Escape S
19,995
$$
#372014A, 6 Speed
Auto, 8K Miles, 1-Owner
14,480
#422005A,
67K Miles
$
12 Chrysler 300 LTD
#469042A,
$
8 Speed Auto, 42K $
Miles, Grey
22,950
2011 Toyota Tacoma........... $17,900
$17,900
#467046A, Ext. Cab, 5 Sp Manual, 32k Miles, 1-Owner
2011 Nissan Juke S............ $18,985
$18,985
#450094A, 1-Owner, 36K Miles, CVTTrans, Black Station Wagon
$19,900
2010 Nissan XTerra SE........ $19,900
#464098A, 5 SpeedAuto, 1-Owner, Silver Metallic, Sport Utility
2012 Mitsubishi Outlander GT. $21,900
$21,900
#363225A, 6 SpeedAuto, 5k Miles, Sport Utility, Rally Red
2012 Toyota Sienna LE........ $22,500
$22,500
#472179A, 1-Owner, 28K Miles, 6 SpeedAuto, Cypress Pearl
2013 Nissan Quest SV......... $25,990
$25,990
#363238A, CVT Trans, 1-Owner, 11K Miles, White Pearl
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9,980
$
2013 Chevrolet Cruze
12,980
$
2009 Volvo XC-90
#P8834,
w/Navigation,
106k Miles
2008 Mazda Miata MX5 Grand Touring
#R1796, 1-Owner,
12K Miles,
6 Speed Auto
#426047A,
78kMiles
11 Toyota RAV4
$$
#P8948, 1-Owner,
Sport Utility,
33K Miles
2011 Ford Escape
12 Hyundai Genesis Coupe
#464070A, 2.0T,
$
5 Speed, 13K Miles, $
9,480
$
#426006A, AWD
With Navigation,
176k Miles
2007 VW Passat
#R1735A, 6 Speed
Auto, 1-Owner,
25K Miles
2003 Volvo S60
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2010 Volvo S40
#42603A,
50k Miles
18,480
$
16,980
$
2008 Ford Expedition L
#327213B,
With Navigation,
87k Miles
20,980
$
1999 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4.............................$8,480 2012 VW Beetle..............................................................$13,980
#N0295A, 118k Miles
#N0323, 28k Miles
#429027A, 83k Miles
#P8884, 40k Miles
#G0002, 47k Miles
#98885, 9k Miles
#E0306, 34k Miles
#P8827, Navigation, 32k Miles
2001 Volvo XC70..........................................................$9,480 2012 Volvo S60................................................................$23,480
2006 Ford Fusion SE............................................$9,980 2013 Volvo S6............................................................$29,980
2013 Mazda3......................................................................$13,480 2011 Volvo XC-90..................................................$30,980
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DARCARS NISSAN
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2002 Honda Accord EX
6,977
$
#P8922A, Automatic,
Very Clean Car
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6,977
$
#441031A, 5 Speed
Manual, 1-Owner
2014 NISSAN VERSA S +CVT
MSRP:
Sale Price:
Nissan Rebate:
NMAC Bonus Cash:
$
#11124
2 At This Price: VINS: 854353, 854676
2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE
MSRP:
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13,995
$
11,995
17,495
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2014 Nissan Versa Note SV
#R1825, Auto, 1Owner, 3.9K miles
12,977
$
14,977
$
#P8904, CVT Trans,
Leather, Sunroof, 1-Owner
$15,495
-$500
-$500
2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class
15,977
$
#470267D, 3.0L Sport,
RWD, 1-Owner, Auto
14,495
2010 Volkswagen New Beetle
$23,940
$19,495
-$1,000
-$1,000
#442018A, Auto,
Convertible, Final
Edition
16,977
$
2006 Nissan 350Z Touring
#432035A, 6 Speed
Manual, Leather,
22,288 Miles
16,977
$
With Bluetooth, Rearview Monitor #13114
2 At This Price: VINS: 190413, 194909
2014MSRP:
NISSAN FRONTIER KC$21,255
4X2 S
Sale Price:
#31014 With Automatic Transmission
2 At This Price: VINS: 717170, 716650
2012 Volvo C30 Premier Plus
$18,995
$
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2010 Nissan Altima 2.5 SL
2013 MSRP:
NISSAN SENTRA FE+
SV
$18,910
2014 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5 S
$
12,977
$
#446147B, 4WD,
Automatic
#11614
2 At This Price: VINS:410790, 415357
#12213
2 At This Price: VINS: 766057, 767134
MSRP:
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Nissan Rebate:
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2003 Toyota 4 Runner SR5
$17,515
$14,995
-$500
-$500
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#326023A, 6 Speed
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1-Owner
17,977
$
2011 Nissan Rogue SV
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1-Owner, Nav
18,977
$
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